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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 29 minutes ago

The discussion on LKML was so civilised compared to this one.
I wonder what the phoronix one is like...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

ITT: one reasonable comment about the topic and a shit ton of Putinist apologizers and hexbear brigading

Edit: three comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

Ingl, the amount of dislikes made me grunt a little

[–] [email protected] 0 points 28 minutes ago

More like a shitton of people with no knowledge about who actually worked on this patch erecting a personality cult around their new NATO hero.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Someone just removed many lifetimes of CO2 emissions with a couple of lines of code.

Shame that usage will just expand to fill the gap. Thanks late stage capitalism. Degrowth.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't expecting this under a random unrelated post. A very welcome comment nonetheless.

Never forget that the exponential boom of renewable energy tech the last 20 years has entirely served as additional energy, not as replacement of fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Unexpected but entirely welcome.

People do forget this all too often.

Cheaper stuff, use more , value less.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

LKML and patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0fc810ae3ae110f9e2fcccce80fc8c8d62f97907

He cites his work as being a variant of a patch submitted by another developer, Josh Poimboeuf. It's a team effort folks :)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, one man did hours of profiling and the other made the patch more elegant lol

[–] [email protected] 101 points 9 hours ago

Damn, those are not rookie numbers!

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