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  2. Snap (software) - Wikipedia

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    Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called snaps, and the tool for using them, snapd, work across a range of Linux distributions [3] and allow upstream software developers to distribute their applications directly to users.

  3. Kernel (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Under Unix, from a programming standpoint, the distinction between the two is fairly thin; the kernel is a program, running in supervisor mode, [c] that acts as a program loader and supervisor for the small utility programs making up the rest of the system, and to provide locking and I/O services for these programs; beyond that, the kernel didn ...

  4. Comparison of operating system kernels - Wikipedia

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    A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. [1] A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made by the developers of particular operating systems.

  5. Self-hosting (compilers) - Wikipedia

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    Since self-hosted compilers suffer from the same bootstrap problems as operating systems, a compiler for a new programming language needs to be written in an existing language. So the developer may use something like assembly language, C/C++, or even a scripting language like Python or Lua to build the first version of the compiler. Once the ...

  6. ABC (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    The full ABC system includes a programming environment with a structure editor (syntax-directed editor), suggestions, static variables (persistent), and multiple workspaces, and is available as an interpreter–compiler. As of 2020, the latest version is 1.05.02, and it is ported to Unix, DOS, Atari, and Apple MacOS.

  7. GNU Hurd - Wikipedia

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    GNU Hurd is a collection of microkernel servers written as part of GNU, for the GNU Mach microkernel. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, [4] and released as free software under the GNU General Public License.

  8. Unix architecture - Wikipedia

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    Unix systems use a centralized operating system kernel which manages system and process activities. All non-kernel software is organized into separate, kernel-managed processes. Unix systems are preemptively multitasking : multiple processes can run at the same time, or within small time slices and nearly at the same time, and any process can ...

  9. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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    Gnumeric – spreadsheet program of the GNOME Project; Calligra Sheets – spreadsheet component of the Calligra Suite in KDE; Pyspread – spreadsheet which uses Python for macro programming, and allows each cell to contain data, the results of a calculation, a Python program, or the results of a Python program.