The kernel itself is a program that usually lives in the root partition of the UNIX filesystem. Most Linux distributions call it............. and it often a symbolic link to the real kernel file which lives in “/boot”.

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The architecture of an operating system is basically the design of its software and hardware components. The core software components of an operating system are collectively known as the kernel.  For example, The architecture of the Linux operating system consists of the Kernel, system library, system, hardware layer, and shell utility. 

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The kernel itself is a program that usually lives in the root partition of the UNIX filesystem. Most Linux distributions call it............. and it often a symbolic link to the real kernel file which lives in “/boot”.