this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
165 points (88.4% liked)

Linux

48705 readers
1215 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

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
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Looking at the linked-from-the-“due to differences”-link emails… jesus christ… so that’s what people mean by Mozilla prioritizing greedy money…

[–] SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml 53 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If you read the developer's background and reasons for the fork, it's actually a lot more....... cringe.

Pretty much, the guy lost his shit because Mozilla is woke / SJW / DEI and all the lovely buzz words used by certain people.

[–] NiaKitty@beehaw.org 18 points 5 days ago

Thanks for sharing this, looked into it myself and that's quite unfortunate.

Why does every piece of cool software end up having some reactionary midlife crisis behind them?

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)