> That’s pretty much what the Linux kernel does at boot. The bootloader is the dropship. Your computer is the barren planet. The advance team is the execution of the startup code in the Linux kernel—the one we’ll be following the whole time. And by the end of this article, that advance team will literally have transformed itself into the standby maintenance crew while a brand-new civilian government takes over. Bear with me—it’ll make sense as we go.

Seems pretty good so far, but the article writes itself in the intro to be very basic, which is a good thing for me, never looked at how the Linux kernel actually boots, so I have only the basic understanding from college.

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TacticalCoder 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Seems pretty good so far, ...

I'm not sure about "good".

These horrible analogies though scream AI-generated content. LinkedIn is full of such crap: AI apparently atm loves to sprinking short sentences of the form: "The X is the Y. The A is the B." or "It's not C. It's D". when making analogies.

Everything has to be a "pattern": things cannot be described on their own. There needs to be a connection to something else for it to explain something: we're talking computers? We must somehow cram in the similitude with a four-strokes combustion engine.

I mean: how is fine-tuning a program or some heuristics not the same as a variable valve-timing motor engine feature?

"It's not fixed valve-timing we're dealing with. It's a variocam!".

If you ask me I find it really tiring already.

	▲	gchamonlive 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You should be reading a more formal document, seems to me you are just not the target audience. You disliking the analogies and getting tired at it for not getting to the point doesn't necessarily mean the text is bad, because that's too much of a narrow view in which to criticise a text that is clearly almost a social communication piece of sorts.