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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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Red Hat: why I'm going all in on community-driven Linux distros. (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm excited to see what the outcome of SUSE forking RHEL will be.

Will IBM backtrack?
Will the SUSE RHEL fork stay separate from SLES?
Will SLES move directly upstream or downstream from the RHEL fork?
Will this inspire other big wigs (Microsoft?) to start work on their own RHEL equivalent distributions?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Really hoping that the enshitification of these various things, further enshitification in the case of Twitter, brings about a really fun “find out” period.

Sadly I think it will get worse in the case of RHEL. I can see IBM locking down access to many of their products to AIX, RHEL, and in many instances Windows. Currently, GPFS, something I work with a lot, supports Debian and Ubuntu (I think). It would not surprise me to see that go away.