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+[[!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]]