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GNU userland

Most operating systems have two distinct parts: the kernel and the userland.

Most Linux distributions use the GNU userland.
It contains system daemons, user applications, the GUI system (X11, KDE, etc.) and various libraries (such as SDL, Mesa, GNUstep, glibc, etc.).

Table of contents

1. Further readings
2. Sources

Further readings

• Software

Sources

All the references in the further readings section, plus the following:

• GNU userland