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prudhvid edited this page Jul 22, 2014 · 3 revisions

What ROS is not!

ROS is a meta operating system and not an actual operating system.

A meta provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. It also provides tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers.

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