eli5 What’s the difference between os and an kernel

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eli5 What’s the difference between os and an kernel

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Kernel talked to the hardware directly. Stuff like running stuff on the cpu, accessing the ram and memory directly. The OS will run applications like your browser and if it needs access to the hardware like when you want access to a file it will ask the kernel to do work to get the resource it needs.