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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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It either runs on Linux or refund (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's not just a Linux thing either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd think so, too. But afaik windows people don't do so much dynamic linking anyways. Most of the times it's Linux executables that are few megabytes in size and most windows executables are at least tens of megabytes because people prefer statically link things in that world.

Nobody stops you doing the same thing with linux executables.