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The Overlooked Operating System

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Are Consumer Operating Systems and Enterprise Operating Systems the Same?

The kernel is the translator we were talking about earlier and it runs with the highest privileges. It's able to talk directly to the machine and very few other things are able to do that. Now the user space is everything that's built on top of that, handles everything from the graphical user interface or the command line. "It's abstracting away a lot of features that the applications can then use without having to reprogram every time"

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