kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is...

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...

A lightweight kernel (LWK) operating system is one used in a large computer with many processor cores, termed a parallel computer. A massively parallel...

hybrid kernel is an operating system kernel whose architecture attempts to combine aspects and benefits of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures...

has been included in many operating system distributions, many of which are called Linux. One such Linux kernel operating system is Android which is used...

A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space. The monolithic model differs from other...

License 2.0. Zephyr includes a kernel, and all components and libraries, device drivers, protocol stacks, file systems, and firmware updates, needed to...

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...

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...

operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...

application up to 56 tasks. The kernel is the name given to the program that does most of the housekeeping tasks for the operating system. The boot loader hands...

open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google. In contrast to Google's Linux-based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android...

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...

(/mɑːk/) is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian to support operating system research, primarily...

loadable kernel module (LKM) is an executable library that extends the capabilities of a running kernel, or so-called base kernel, of an operating system. LKMs...

WRT54G Dell Networking Operating System; DNOS9 is NetBSD based, while OS10 uses the Linux kernel Extensible Operating System runs on switches from Arista...

source code of the Solaris kernel, effectively turning Solaris version 11 back into a closed source proprietary operating system. Following that, OpenSolaris...

In computer operating system design, kernel preemption is a property possessed by some kernels, in which the CPU can be interrupted in the middle of executing...

developers of Mach-based operating systems to move some time-critical components, like file systems or drivers, back inside the kernel.[citation needed] While...

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...

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...

operating system's kernel. User space usually refers to the various programs and libraries that the operating system uses to interact with the kernel:...

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...

kernel services such as process scheduling. System calls provide an essential interface between a process and the operating system. In most systems,...

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...

global aggregate operating system. Each subset is a composite of two distinct service provisioners. The first is a ubiquitous minimal kernel, or microkernel...

and Linux operating systems". It was created using a hierarchy model, including "the basic kernel layer which is similar to Mach, the system service layer...

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...

the file system hierarchy. The kernel also includes some built-in modules that provide interfaces of the virtual operating system, such as system calls,...

on embedded systems Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset, a Linux operating system that fits on a floppy disk List of embedded operating systems OpenWrt Principle...