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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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What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by the_crab_man to c/[email protected]

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Personally, I'm looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE's port to Qt 6.

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[–] elderflower 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't care about copyright or authorship, which becomes a huge problem due to content no longer having a real home in IPFS, everybody can pin, cache or share content on IPFS.

Sounds like a feature, not a shortcoming

[–] NotThatDave 2 points 1 year ago

I think that would go against the philosophy of ipfs. Sticking drm on top of it would crash with the intended self-archiving capabilities and censorship resistance, as well as with the whole point of a decentralized network since some entity or entities would have the power to block or delete content from it