1,065. the joys of replacing boards. As it happens I have just removed, stripped, repainted and replaced 28 boards here (needed to add insulation & sisalation) if it is just 1 or 2 boards, be prepared to break more. You need to start at the top board and work your way down, carefully.
desktop. 1  small or compact enough to fit or be used on a desk: a desktop calendar. 2  the surface of a desk. 3  Computers. Also called desktop computer. a computer that is not portable, often consisting of a CPU, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
up vote 2 down vote. A desktop operating system is an OS designed to run on a desktop computer. It has drivers, optimizations and interfaces (APIs and user interfaces) for desktop use. An embedded operating system is the same thing but intended for an embedded device. It might possible to load an application created on a desktop OS on an embedded OS, depending on the application, the OS, the hardware, the development tools used and possibly other factors.