What is a kernel by the way?
Literary speaking a kernel is a heart. In GNU/Linux the core of the Operating system is the kernel. It is the work of the kernel to communicate with the hardware. Think it as an interface between the software and hardware. You know computer is dumb enough to understand even English. Linus Torvalds first designed a monolithic kernel in Sep 1991 as a small project and put it up on FTP servers with the source code of course. Soon people liked and its popularity rose. Though he got some stiff resistant from some people like Andy Tanenbaum, the noted Professor for Networks, Operating Systems and the creator of Operating System MINIX. Linus damn cared about this and went ahead to achieve his mission.
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