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chesterstu said:
I love the way people think the Kernel is the operating system. It is a very small part dwarfed many times by the size of the user space components.
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This is in intersting point. Technicially the kernal IS the OS, linux users have been used to this idea for a while, but I would argue that a consumer OS is much more then that.

Burnsy
 
Burnsy2023 said:
This is in intersting point. Technicially the kernal IS the OS, linux users have been used to this idea for a while, but I would argue that a consumer OS is much more then that.

Burnsy
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It depends on how you define an operating system. If an operating is literally that, the the system that co ordinates the operation of the hardware then the OS is the kernel.

However, If the operating system is what allows the user to interact with computer and run applications then the OS is a whole lot more
 
An OS has been a lot more than just a kernel for a long long time.

The last popular OS to be just a kernel was probably DOS. And I doubt if that actually qualified as a true kernel as it didn't do sod all hardware abstraction or memory management nor any processor scheduling (due to the lack of the concept of threads).

Pretty much all OSes will have some command shell. Whether it be text or graphical based.
 
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