The Overlooked Operating System
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English - October 13, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsTechnology Society & Culture linux agile programming cloud coding command line windows computers containers devops Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The operating system wars are over. We’re still left with Windows, Linux, and MacOS—along with Android and iOS. Many argue that there’s little left to accomplish with the bottom of the software stack. But work on the OS is far from over.
The kernel and user space provide the literal foundation for the rest of the software stack. Drivers, networking, and countless other features are abstracted away as common resources so the other layers of the stack can focus on their own functions. So when the overlooked layer gets an upgrade, it can really make a difference.