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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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[–] woelkchen@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The plus side of this is that there's not the Android situation where you just won't get OS updates at some point. The downside is that the 1GHz Intel CPU is trash.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I am really disappointed it isn't running on an ARM processor.

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Their notebook does, though, so maybe in the future.