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Definition: The main component of an Operating Systems. It manages the system's resources - communication between hardware and software components, provides the lowest-level abstraction layer for the resources like CPU, RAM, I/O devices/SMBus.
Usage: There are more cases
of BSOD then Kernel panic on daily basis,
therefore
I love Linux even more.
Posted by alexmaniac on April 28, 2009 at 00:35:59 Pacific

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