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What exactly is a Kernel?
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What the heck is a kernel.? Does it manage I/O or something?
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The kernel is the core of an operating system -- think of a corn kernel. :P
It loads first, and then loads the rest of the OS. The kernel handles memory, task, and disk management. PCWebOpedia Definition
A guy gets on a bus and starts threatening everybody: "I'll integrate you! I'll differentiate you!!!" So everybody gets scared and runs away. Only one person stays. The guy comes up to him and says: "Aren't you scared, I'll integrate you, I'll differentiate you!!!" And the other guy says: "No, I am not scared, I am e to the power of x."
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OK the explanation is good
but the bus storie realy sucks |
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Yeah, the link and explanation's good.
I had to giggle a bit on reading furthur there about different OSs and there's a list of all the readily available OSs together with a little tag-along about Linux. viz. - For PCs, the most popular operating systems are DOS, OS/2, and Windows, but others are available, such as Linux.
It's a bit like "Oh, and by the way, -there's this other little clunky geek OS, called Linux, as well." *rolls eyes* They carefully neglect to mention that the source code for Linux is owned by everybody, and we can mess with it's kernal to our little hearts content.  _B_
Beware the Big Koala. It originated the recursive malapropism when it found itself supernumerary to a specific task and commented, "I think I'm erroneous here". -which it wasn't until it said so, but then it was, -so it wasn't. It also once won a staring contest, with a stuffed cat.
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A bus is a vehicle that carries more passengers than an ordinary vehicle, but they must pay fare to travel on one.
A kernel is a military officer, below a general but higher than major. 
Dreams are stories, but my life is just one bad dream. :P
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In category theory and its applications to other branches of mathematics, kernels are a generalization of the kernels of group homomorphisms and the kernels of module homomorphisms and certain other kernels from algebra. Intuitively, the kernel of the morphism f : X → Y is the "most general" morphism k : K → X which, when composed with f, yields zero.
In computer science, the kernel is the fundamental part of an operating system. It is a piece of software responsible for providing secure access to the machine's hardware to various computer programs. Since there are many programs, and access to the hardware is limited, the kernel is also responsible for deciding when and how long a program should be able to make use of a piece of hardware, which is called multiplexing |
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