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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).

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Richard Stallman has cancer (lemmy.ndlug.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From his website stallman.org:

Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.

Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eff cancer :(

Hopefully some day we get to the point where it's as rare as polio. I think that's the same kind that Hank Green had though, IIRC. Hopefully it's as manageable.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment confused me since I thought you were saying the EFF was cancer at first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have never read the initialisation EFF as “eff” before but now… can’t unsee