Written in ANSI C language (Assembly used only in the needed parts). GRUB Multiboot Specification v1 compliant. Full 32bit protected mode non-preemptive kernel. For i386 processors and higher. Preemptive multitasking. POSIX-compliant (mostly). Process groups, sessions and job control. Interprocess communication with pipes, signals and UNIX domain sockets. UNIX System V IPC (semaphores, message que