 | The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel... 82 KB (10,162 words) - 20:54, 2 April 2024 |
A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. A comparison of system kernels can provide insight into the design and architectural choices made... 72 KB (1,162 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024 |
A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture where the entire operating system is working in kernel space. The monolithic model differs from... 4 KB (363 words) - 12:59, 31 January 2024 |
A hybrid kernel is an operating system kernel architecture that attempts to combine aspects and benefits of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures... 11 KB (1,184 words) - 03:14, 21 April 2024 |
A lightweight kernel (LWK) operating system is one used in a large computer with many processor cores, termed a parallel computer. A massively parallel... 6 KB (856 words) - 23:38, 7 August 2023 |
Darwin is the core Unix operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed... 41 KB (2,482 words) - 01:58, 2 April 2024 |
later DOS/VS and DOS/VSE) operating system for System/360 and System/370 IBM mainframes TI-RTOS Kernel – Real-time operating system for TI's embedded devices... 72 KB (8,243 words) - 00:10, 17 April 2024 |
 | The Linux kernel is a free and open-source,: 4 monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally written in 1991... 196 KB (18,637 words) - 07:20, 26 April 2024 |
 | A kernel panic (sometimes abbreviated as KP) is a safety measure taken by an operating system's kernel upon detecting an internal fatal error in which... 15 KB (1,650 words) - 07:24, 25 April 2024 |
up kernel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kernel may refer to: Kernel (operating system), the central component of most operating systems Kernel (image... 3 KB (373 words) - 16:56, 2 November 2023 |
Mach (/mɑːk/) is a kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian to support operating system research, primarily distributed... 38 KB (5,253 words) - 00:08, 20 January 2024 |
 | resources of that computer by passing requests to the operating system kernel. Many operating systems support one or more vendor-specific or open networking... 102 KB (12,070 words) - 21:50, 9 April 2024 |
 | Oracle Solaris (redirect from Solaris operating system) source code of the Solaris kernel, effectively turning Solaris 11 back into a closed source proprietary operating system. Following that, OpenSolaris... 71 KB (5,528 words) - 20:00, 26 April 2024 |
 | open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google. In contrast to Google's Linux-based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android... 22 KB (1,917 words) - 14:08, 2 April 2024 |
operating system's kernel. User space usually refers to the various programs and libraries that the operating system uses to interact with the kernel:... 5 KB (498 words) - 16:53, 19 January 2024 |
OS-level virtualization (redirect from Operating System-level Virtualization) OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances... 27 KB (2,249 words) - 20:00, 26 April 2024 |
 | License 2.0. Zephyr includes a kernel, and all components and libraries, device drivers, protocol stacks, file systems, and firmware updates, needed to... 11 KB (781 words) - 07:14, 21 March 2024 |
loadable kernel module (LKM) is an object file that contains code to extend the running kernel, or so-called base kernel, of an operating system. LKMs are... 15 KB (1,720 words) - 02:58, 14 March 2024 |
are; kernel In some operating systems, the OS is split into a low level region called the kernel and higher level code that relies on the kernel. Typically... 77 KB (1,754 words) - 19:52, 27 February 2024 |
 | Microkernel (redirect from Micro kernel) abbreviated as μ-kernel) is the near-minimum amount of software that can provide the mechanisms needed to implement an operating system (OS). These mechanisms... 49 KB (5,726 words) - 19:02, 5 March 2024 |
 | XNU (redirect from Darwin kernel) the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released... 13 KB (1,398 words) - 19:57, 31 March 2024 |
 | GNU (redirect from GNU operating system) kernels is a GNU operating system with a kernel (e.g. GNU with Linux), because the GNU collection renders the kernel into a usable operating system as... 34 KB (3,105 words) - 08:31, 15 March 2024 |
 | kernel services such as process scheduling. System calls provide an essential interface between a process and the operating system. In most systems,... 19 KB (2,280 words) - 15:53, 23 February 2024 |
top of a light-weight kernel. The NetBSD drivers can be used on top of the rump kernel on a wide range of POSIX operating systems, such as the Hurd, Linux... 5 KB (456 words) - 02:58, 27 March 2023 |
as an operating system which doesn't have a very big user base. Development can begin from existing resources like a kernel, an operating system, or a... 6 KB (612 words) - 04:47, 18 March 2024 |
Microsoft Windows (redirect from Windows operating system) its former name, Windows CE, it is a hybrid kernel operating system optimized for low power and memory systems, with OEMs able to modify the UI to suit their... 99 KB (8,797 words) - 04:05, 18 April 2024 |
WRT54G Dell Networking Operating System; DNOS9 is NetBSD based, while OS10 uses the Linux kernel Extensible Operating System runs on switches from Arista... 8 KB (918 words) - 03:28, 7 April 2024 |
 | a line of operating systems produced and sold by Microsoft, is a layered design that consists of two main components, user mode and kernel mode. It is... 35 KB (4,197 words) - 17:14, 26 August 2023 |
| Linux (redirect from Linux operating system) LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by... 107 KB (9,909 words) - 12:25, 15 April 2024 |
In computer operating system design, kernel preemption is a property possessed by some kernels (the cores of operating systems), in which the CPU can be... 3 KB (316 words) - 02:27, 8 October 2023 |