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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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NixOS forked (aux.computer)

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[–] moonpiedumplings 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

I dunno, some of these are a pretty big deal, in particular:

Gitea repeatedly makes choices that leave Gitea admins exposed to known vulnerabilities during extended periods of time. For instance Gitea spent resources to undergo a SOC2 security audit for its SaaS offering while critical vulnerabilities demanded a new release. Advance notice of security releases is for customers only.

Gitea is developed on github, whereas forgejo is developed on and by codeberg, who use it as their main forge (also mentioned on that page). Someone dogfooding gives me more confidence in the software.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tbf most of gitea is hosted on gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

Just not the main repo because of a blocking issue (which makes the above link pretty annoying)