Windows operating system comes with both Kernel and User modes, but not everyone knows the difference between both. In fact, most users have no idea these modes exist, but yet they’ve used them ...

At a high level, kernel mode is generally reserved for the lowest-level, most trusted functions of the operating system. Crashes in kernel mode are catastrophic; they will halt the entire system.

Microkernels aim to provide a safer and more secure runtime environment over the popular monolithic kernel based Operating Systems (Fig. 2).Unlike the monolithic kernel approach where all device ...

The Linux kernel is the core of the operating system. It also represents the key difference between Linux and MINIX (which is somewhat ironic, as Torvalds had been accused of stealing code from ...

2nd course in the Advanced Embedded Linux Development .Instructor: Dan WalkesThis course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux ...

Mac antivirus software, firewalls, VPN clients, DNS proxies, USB drivers, and others, all make use of kernel extensions. The difference between these two new extension systems is that the older ...

Kernel Development Basics. Understanding the difference between kernel space and user space is fundamental. Kernel space is where drivers and the core of the operating system run, while user space is ...