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[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 6 points 3 days ago

The kernel does stuff like

  • process and CPU task management
  • hardware abstraction
  • memory management (at the process level),
  • file system managment
  • and resource isolation (such as randomized memory addresses (ASLR))

The rest of the OS provides the actual software that users interact with, like

  • file managers
  • desktop rendering and window management
  • settings menus
  • sound mixing between applications
  • graphics rendering
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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