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Grasp the kernel basics

hen you think of an operating system (OS) it ought to be an umbrella term for the ‘thing’ that’s responsible for everything your computer does after the BIOS/UEFI hands over control to the bootloader. For popular systems such as Windows and macOS it’s easy to lump everything together thusly. There’s no choice of desktops, no option to boot to a (real) command line and no real way to replace core applications (like and ). On or ). Yet it turns out that every operating system has a kernel.

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