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Why do we refer to a userspace infrastructure/UI API as an OS? Are KDE and GNOME OSes now?
Because without userspace infrastructure, this would be called a kernel?
Maybe a virtual machine running on a kernel running on a hypervisor? It's kernels all the way down...
The real programmers manually load their boot loader that they personally wrote in assembly on every reboot, and like it!
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Sentient plasmoids are a gas.
What is an OS? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why do we refer to a userspace infrastructure/UI API as an OS? Are KDE and GNOME OSes now?
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
Because without userspace infrastructure, this would be called a kernel?
Re: (Score:1)
Maybe a virtual machine running on a kernel running on a hypervisor? It's kernels all the way down...
Re:What is an OS? (Score:2)
Maybe a virtual machine running on a kernel running on a hypervisor? It's kernels all the way down...
The real programmers manually load their boot loader that they personally wrote in assembly on every reboot, and like it!