What is the difference between the operating system and the kernel

Question

I do not understand the difference between operating system and kernel  Can someone please explain it

User · Answer

The difference between an operating system and a kernel:

The kernel is a part of an operating system. The operating system is the software package that communicates directly to the hardware and our application. The kernel is the lowest level of the operating system. The kernel is the main part of the operating system and is responsible for translating the command into something that can be understood by the computer. The main functions of the kernel are:

memory management
network management
device driver
file management
process management

User · Answer

The kernel is part of the operating system and closer to the hardware it provides low level services like    device driver process management memory management  system calls   An operating system also includes applications like the user interface  shell  gui  tools  and services

User · Answer

Basically the Kernel is the interface between hardware  devices which are available in Computer  and Application software is like MS Office  Visual Studio  etc  If I answer  quot what is an OS  quot  then the answer could be the same  Hence the kernel is the part  amp  core of the OS  The very sensitive tasks of an OS like memory management  I O management  process management are taken care of by the kernel only  So the ultimate difference is   Kernel is responsible for Hardware level interactions at some specific range  But the OS is like hardware level interaction with full scope of computer  Kernel triggers SystemCalls to tell the OS that this resource is available at this point of time  The OS is responsible to handle those system calls in order to utilize the resource

[operating-system] What is the difference between the operating system and the kernel?

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