@iron_bug >so OS is the kernel
If an operating system is the kernel, then there's no point writing that instead of just writing kernel.

On some ancient computers all you needed was a kernel and the program you wanted to run to have an operating system, but those days are no more.

My knowledge isn't yet complete, but I don't continue errors, no matter how popular, or even if they are spread by people who do know better - something that doesn't operate by itself will never be an operating system after all.

windows is an OS, but you'll get something even more non-functional if you try running the NT kernel by itself.


I use the GNU OS, with GNU Linux-libre as my kernel.

Clang+LLVM and musl could not have been written without GNU and GCC.


GNU is that large, it currently consists of 387 packages and more will be added.