Departing Userland

“To ask for a map is to say, ‘Tell me a story.’”

– Peter Turchi, “Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer”¹

“Userland” is an alternative term to “user space,” which itself is a term best defined in terms of what it is not: “kernel space.”

Operating system concepts are impossible to avoid on our journey into the world of information infrastructure, so the separation between “Kernel Space” and “UserSpace” will be our first.

I like to imagine that Userland is a physical location and that we can point to it on a map. It harkens toward a mental image of

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