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How many types of architectures and OSes

I am trying to write a script python script that is supposed to run across all linux based OSes. The python script invokes executables of few existing tools(for example pathload and iperf) that I have ...
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How to know which commands are executed when I do something in GUI

This is for academic purpose. I want to know which commands are executed when we do something in GUI, for example creating a folder. I want to show that both the mkdir shell command and create folder ...
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Hurd vs Plan9 vs Linux vs eCos vs FreeRTOS what are the main differences specially with Hurd?

Hurd is actually not Unix nor Linux. But more superior says. Where Plan9 and Linux are in the range of Unix/Linux. eCos and FreeRTOS is also completely not unix/linux. What is the main differences ...
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How to determine bitness of hardware and OS?

Output of uname -a on my RHEL 5.4 machine is: Linux <machine name> 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Does it mean that hardware is 64 bit ...
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Which Scheduling algorithm is used in Linux?

Recently in an interview I was asked about the Scheduling algorithm used by Linux Operating system. What is the algorithm used any why? Also, what algorithm is used in in real-time operating systems ...
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Memory management principle used by Linux

Is memory management in the Linux Kernel done using paging or segmentation or both?
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Linux package manager architecture

I am looking for a guide on one of Linux Package manager architectures. For example apt-get (dpkg), or yum (rpm). I want to know how they manage the package list, file list, package versions and so ...
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Resources to learn linux architecture in detail?

I want to learn the Linux file hierarchy and how the OS works at a deeper level. Are there any ebooks or webpages to learn that?