The Linux Kernel

• Is a computer program, that acts as the operating system.
• Allows applications to access the Hardware, in a more-or-less generic manner.
• Gets loaded when the system starts executing, and launches processes that allow us to login and run programs.
• Is made of a 'core' residing in a single file, and a bunch of smaller Modules that are only loaded if they are needed.

Originally written by guy keren