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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think there’s a lot of user interface hurdles between now and The Year Of The Linux Facetop. And a lot of very tight hardware design. And a need for someone to point a lot of devs in the same direction, and make them give a shit about how well stuff works for a non-technical user. And a source of funding for all of this.