Penguin
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A small piece of Software that lets the OperatingSystem commune with a specific piece of Hardware.

DeviceDrivers have caused considerable soul-searching in the OpenSource world as they are the lowest level, most platform dependent pieces of software in many systems and many Hardware makers only provide Binary DeviceDriver for their Hardware in order to avoid giving the competition insights into how the hardware works.