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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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[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 12 points 6 days ago

Big stuff

-euo pipefail now being a posix standard is really awesome, as well as readlink and realpath (didn't even know these last two were non-standard).

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Slightly off-topic, but that is some interesting blogging platform.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Informative and interesting article, thanks for sharing.

Quite a few of these POSIX improvements were new to me, even though it turns out that they already exist in the GNU versions of the tools.