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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NixOS - about a year ago it would have been Arch, but the Nix bois seem to have overtaken them ~~us~~.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

nix is just objectively better which sucks because it does a bunch of stuff bad and has a bad wiki