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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] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

/ As of Jan 2034, 512KiB is determined to be the perfect blksize to minimize system call overhead across most systems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

as of Jan 2034 there are no humans so thus we can discontinue tools for humans

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

Feb 2034: grammer correction: there are no humans.