diff options
| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2011-01-09 23:34:42 +0100 |
| commit | f3df65ce34153357d28bee621bdf49b61e68b182 (patch) | |
| tree | 25ac416b157b010ca2f942dac5c5ba0b38a924ac /kernel.mdwn | |
| parent | 09184ae09c44c052a207aa5c6dc8ce9cf61a343f (diff) | |
| parent | 3bbe62327128ce85829a4cb2fb429bd8f21b4d75 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel.mdwn | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel.mdwn b/kernel.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8190660e --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +The kernel of an operating system is a fundamental program which provides +essential resources from the hardware of the computer to other programs. + +A kernel typically runs all the time and remains resident in main memory. + +The amount of functionality and resources which it provides vary tremendously. + + * [[microkernel]] + + * [[UNIX]] |