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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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Is there an advantage of using doas over sudo (thelemmy.club)

submitted 7 months ago by whyisthesheep@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I see people talking about doas saying it's just like sudo but with less features. I'm just wondering if there is any situation where you should use doas or if it's just personal preference.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Yes thats the point, the specific actions are a good way to act like a firewall for the access to the privileged process, invoked by anyone.

This is brilliant, as unprivileged users over ssh, or not even logged in, can invoke the updates in that case, making a "grandma pc" that is immutable and autoupdating possible.

See this discussion on how it would eventually be implemented