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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).

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The cold war is reborn and this time it's warmer. Do people not understand that before 30 years ago no communication occured with countries behind the iron curtain. Russia's invasion of Ukraine put us on a path back to those kind of relations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The new cold war started long before Russia invaded. Google Victoria Newlands involvement in the maidan coup that triggered it

Naw fam this is just stupid. We need global collaboration that's what open source is all about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Stupid or not, it is the state of the world. It's not down to Linus to do anything but live and work within the situation constructed by the governments of nation states.