this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
160 points (97.1% liked)

Linux

48376 readers
1227 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PreciousPig@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (9 children)

When will we see fanless models? That is one of the defining features of the M1 Air.

[–] aarrjaay@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And they thermally throttle due to the heat.

[–] Allero 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not necessarily. I own a passively cooled x86 laptop that runs just fine without throttling - granted, it's based on Celeron series CPU, but when we talk of ARM laptops, we normally don't talk powerful machines - Macs are rather an exception.

load more comments (7 replies)