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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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Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not a lot to this article, but I'm glad he's focused on making Wayland better.

[–] lambda 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The blog post linked within was a good read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

His blog is consistently cool. I've never worked on any sort of driver or graphics-anything and it's fun for me to read.