The Linux kernel does not have a process id (also called pid). Process 1 is almost always the process scheduler, init. PIDs are assigned to each subsequent process that is started and they will usually vary. Do not remove init, doing so would likely have catastrophic consequences, a kernel panic for instance.
Unless you particularly enjoy using the crash utility.
$ man crash
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The Linux kernel doesn't consider itself a process, therefore it has no process id.
It isn't. RTLinux is a separate microkernel that runs Linux as a process. The Linux kernel is essentially unmodified.
Linux is the kernel.
Linux kernel was created in 1991.
The Linux kernel sources can be downloaded from the official Linux Kernel Archives, found at the link below.
No, it is unix-based but Linux is a kernel not an operating system.Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Debian,and puppy Linux,ect. are OS's that use the Linux kernel.
Linux is a monolithic kernel. Some operating systems with a microkernel use Linux as a process for providing drivers, but this is irrelevant to mainstream Linux.
No. "Kernel programming" is the writing of code that runs in kernel mode. It is not specific to Linux. "Linux programming" usually refers to any programming done in/for the Linux environment, and is not necessarily specific to the kernel.
Linux is the kernel. As of 8-10-12 the latest stable Linux kernel is 3.5.1.
The 2.4 version of the Linux kernel was released in 2001.
Linux Kernel Developers Summit was created in 2001.
All versions of the Linux kernel are "full featured." The latest stable version of the Linux kernel as of May 17, 2011 is 2.6.38.6.