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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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[–] Lowered_lifted 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux OSes have always been the ones to run on everything lol, it took Microsoft like a decade to make Windows run on ARM

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Which is weird because WinNT 4.0 had several CPU architecture ports. Then MSFT dropped them all for only x86.