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The Operating System is a collection of many small programs, collectively it is known as Package. While kernel is just a part of the Operating System. However kernel is the most important and basic part of an OS and can be considered as the skeleton of OS. Architecture of Kernel - Wikipedia                   An OS is a collection of small programs like.... 1. Program  to Read and Write  files in memory. 2. Program to Rename a file. 3. Program to create or delete a file or folder. 4. Program to show an icon. 5. Program for some application like calendar and clock 6. Different programs for animation and effects in a GUI based OS etc. If you are running a GUI (Graphics User Interface) based OS,  then programs written for the graphics are seprate. Program for clock-like application is separate and  programs for basic functionality of OS are seprate. All these programs are combined to make a complete Packa...

Yes, India has it's own Operating System and called BOSS (  Bharat Operating System Solution ).   BOSS is developed by C-DAC,  Chennai,  comes with different packages pre-installed to reduce the effort of gathering all software's for Linux.           In fact, Indian government plans to replace Windows OS with BOSS  OS  in all their sectors as it is more secure than windows and it's  proven that it's successfully defends  some advanced attacks made by  professional hackers .     The main thing that made BOSS as boss is  it's kernel , MOOL( Minimalistic Object Oriented Linux ) . It can add kernel modules at runtime to increase performance .      You can always refer at http://www.bosslinux.in  for more and up to date information about BOSS.