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Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] Important and Critical product categories - Operating systems
How. about:

An *operating system* (*OS*) is system software <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_software> that manages computer hardware <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hardware> and software <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software> resources, and provides common services <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)> for computer programs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program>."

Courtesy of Ben Laurie, Wikipedia and some ASF folks. URLs may help for `sub defintions'.

I very much like the end "for computer programs': or to make that stronger:

An *operating system* (*OS*) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)> for further computer programs to run on that system.

I think this keeps it away from kernels, hypervisors, boot managres and so on better.

Dw.

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