this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
425 points (79.6% liked)
Linux
48338 readers
47 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Brainless take. Yeah they mystified it. Or Computers are pretty magical, and it was fucking hard to do shit on them in the beginning. . and it's delusional to think that a text console makes it easier to work with, that it's somehow not capitalism's but no that someone makes a gui and formats that's just the fucking illuminati brotherhood and not someone trying to make computers usable