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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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A quick look back at Corel Linux OS, another attempt to make a competing Windows-like OS (www.neowin.net)

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Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

XFCE4 keeps adding more and more logind/dbus complexity in every gui they make, that can hardly be built without it. They have made it so systemd-centric it has become hard for systemd-free distributions to support it without hacking it all the time.

The pseudo-systemd-free distros using elogind don't have much problems with it because 90% of systemd functionality is already available,

LXDE as DEs go, is still "clean" with most of it gtk2 or 3 optional

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