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[–] 70 points 9 months ago (1 child)

It’s a program certainly, but “just a program” is a bit misleading because it places it on the same footing as Doom or cat or an Arduino project. Linux is a ring 0 program, which processors give unique treatment.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Reminds me of not long after I started using Linux. I thought the kernel was "just a program" like cat and tried to run the kernel from the terminal, only to be disappointed when a new kernel in fact did not start running inside the terminal window.

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