Cite intodruction on ros.org:
It 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.
You can also A good explanation can be found in this wiki. The basic difference is that the meta operating system is built on top of the operating system, allowing different processes (nodes) to communicate with each other at runtime.
I recently heard the term meta operating system while studying ros. Can you help me distinguish between an operating system and a meta operating system?
This paper best explains what ROS is and what it is not.
Quoting intodruction on ros.org:
It 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.
You can also find a good explanation in this wiki. Basic The difference is that the meta operating system is built on top of the operating system, allowing different processes (nodes) to communicate with each other at runtime.