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The Overlooked Operating System

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What's an Operating System?

You can't move between Mac OS to Windows or Linux very easily, if at all. An operating system is a combination of those two things. What I usually call everything else is user space. Most software that runs in user space shouldn't be able to crash the machine. We try and run the most software with less privileges.

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