Without going into great detail, the kernel is what tells the big chip that controls your computer to do what you want the program that you're using to do.
Without a kernel, an operating system doesn't exist. Without programs, a kernel is useless.
The kernel is the core of the operating system and it is responsible for translating the commands into something that can be understood by the computer.
the kernel is the central component of most computer operating systems; it is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. The kernel's responsibilities include managing the system's resources (the communication between hardware andsoftware components).[1] Usually as a basic component of an operating system, a kernel can provide the lowest-level abstraction layer for the resources (especially processors and I/O devices) that application software must control to perform its function. It typically makes these facilities available toapplication processes through inter-process communication mechanisms and system calls.
Summary:
1. An operating system is a software package that communicates directly to the computer hardware and all your applications run on top of it while the kernel is the part of the operating system that communicates directly to the hardware
2. Though each
operating system has a kernel, this is buried behind a lot of other software and most users don’t even know it exists
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