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  2. Kernel (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    A microkernel allows the implementation of the remaining part of the operating system as a normal application program written in a high-level language, and the use of different operating systems on top of the same unchanged kernel. It is also possible to dynamically switch among operating systems and to have more than one active simultaneously ...

  3. Monolithic kernel - Wikipedia

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    A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space. The monolithic model differs from other architectures such as the microkernel [1] [2] in that it alone defines a high-level virtual interface over computer hardware. A set of primitives or system calls implement all operating system ...

  4. Category:Operating system kernels - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... Pages in category "Operating system kernels" ... out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Kernel (operating ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Linux kernel - Wikipedia

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    The Linux kernel is a free and open source, [11]: 4 Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU operating system (OS) which was created to be a free replacement for Unix.

  7. Kernel - Wikipedia

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    Kernel (operating system), the central component of most operating systems; Kernel (image processing), a matrix used for image convolution; Compute kernel, in GPGPU programming; Kernel method, in machine learning; Kernelization, a technique for designing efficient algorithms Kernel, a routine that is executed in a vectorized loop, for example ...

  8. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    Once the kernel has started, it starts the init process, [20] a daemon which then bootstraps the user space, for example by checking and mounting file systems, and starting up other processes. The init system is the first daemon to start (during booting) and the last daemon to terminate (during shutdown). Systemd load is a runlevel target to ...

  9. 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.