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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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Patch submitted to the Linux kernel by a 4 year old. (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

So in the documentation they had

1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
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As you can see the 's' doesn't get a '-' under it. So they changed the documentation to:

1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
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so the 's' in parameters gets a dash under it.

this seems to be the standard as everywhere else the dashes go for the same length of characters as the above line. Example:

2.0 /proc/consoles
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The little girl said the 's' in parameters is sad because it didn't get the dash under it and it was all alone. So they added the dash.