The kernel plays an essential role, as it manages how your phone, tablet, and PC's hardware and operating system.

I think the diagram is just trying to emphasize that operating system functions are usually invoked through a different mechanism then a simple library call.

Oracle has been subsuming operating system functions like memory and storage management for years; subsuming the whole operating system was just the next logical step.

A kernel can be defined as the essential center of an operating system. The kernel is the core of an operating system that provides a set of basic services for the other parts of the operating system.

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