Learning to program at the operating system level

[vorad]

I was recently reading some old LWN article[1] about a realtime workshop in
which was stated that the academia doesn't prepare CS graduates for working
with the development community and more over, they don't know to program at
the operating system level.

What does programming at the operating system level mean and what does it
involve ? How's that different than what's currently happening in software
development, what are the constraints and what should an engineer expect
when it enters the realm of OSs ?

Thanks!

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/355416/
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