Comparing windows and Linux hardware management.

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 2, 2009 7:05 PM EDT
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An operating systems most basic function is to act as a layer between the computer hardware and the user space programs. User space meaning the programs you use as a computer user, ie. office, email, internet and games programs. What an operating system provides to those user space programs is a standard interface to the computers hardware, no matter what type of hardware that is.

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