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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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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)
EDIT: He's actually a Swedish-speaking Finnish guy, mea culpa.
Torvalds is Finnish by nationality, he just speaks Swedish as his mother tongue. That's not uncommon in Finland.
@teemuki @raubarno
In Finland they have bilingual street signs. Where the majority is Finnish-speaking, the signs are in Finnish first and then in Swedish. And in places where the majority is Swedish-speaking they have signs in Swedish first, then in Finnish.
To the best of my understanding cultural "!identity" is nort relevant at all there, and nobody really cares.
I'm sorry but that's just nonsense. Finland had one of the strongest communist movements in Western Europe during the cold war. Large swaths of Finns happily voted for communists in elections for decades.
@teemuki @raubarno So did large swaths of Italians, Greeks, French, Dutch and Spanish in the 70s
I might add that Linus' father Nils Torvalds was a card carrying member of the Finnish Communist Party in the 1970s.