Oct 29, 2025 · 5 min read · Have you ever wondered what actually happens from the moment you press the power button until your desktop or login screen appears? Let’s explore this fascinating journey step by step from hardware initialization to loading your operating system. S...
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Sep 26, 2025 · 3 min read · Every command you run in Linux spawns a process. But processes don’t just “run” — they move between different states depending on CPU availability, I/O, and signals. For DevOps Engineers, SREs, and System Administrators, understanding these states is...
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Sep 1, 2025 · 2 min read · Difficulty: Beginner Reading Time: 5 min read Last Updated: June 30, 2025 What Happens When a Computer is Turned On? 💡 What really happens inside your computer the moment you press the power button? It’s a process most of us take for granted—but be...
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Jun 27, 2025 · 5 min read · The booting process in a Linux-based system involves six steps: BIOS, MBR, GRUB, Kernel, Init, and Runlevel programs. It begins with the BIOS performing a power-on self-test and proceeds to load the Master Boot Record (MBR), which is responsible for ...
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Apr 14, 2025 · 3 min read · Ever wondered what happens when you press the power button on your Linux computer or server? It doesn’t just magically turn on and show you a login screen—there’s a step-by-step booting process happening in the background. Let's break it down in a su...
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Mar 19, 2025 · 6 min read · System Run Levels Main Run Level 0 » Shutdown (or halt) the system 1 » Single-user mode; usually aliased as s or S 6 » Reboot the system Other Run Level 2 » Multiuser mode without networking 3 » Multiuser mode with networking 5 » Multiuser mo...
Join discussionSep 6, 2024 · 5 min read · Friday, 6th September 2024 When you turn on a computer, it takes several steps to go from powered off to fully operational. The Linux boot process is what happens behind the scenes when you start up a Linux system. This process is crucial because it ...
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Jun 28, 2024 · 3 min read · The Linux boot process involves several stages, each responsible for initializing and configuring different parts of the system to eventually hand over control to the operating system. Here’s a detailed explanation of each step: BIOS/UEFI Initializa...
Join discussionNov 26, 2023 · 8 min read · Unix History Development and Founders: Unix was developed by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs, a research and development subsidiary of AT&T, in the early 1970s. Birthplace and Initial Release: Unix was first developed at Be...
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Oct 17, 2023 · 6 min read · Introduction This is the last blog of our Linux blog in which we are going to discuss about the Linux boot process The Boot Process The Linux boot process is the procedure of initializing a system it consists of everything which happens when the com...
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