this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
7 points (100.0% liked)

Linux

1258 readers
105 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
 
top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] buried_treasure@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looking at that screenshot, even though I've been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I long for window decorations and borders like that. Anyone know a good KDE 5 theme that does it?

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a very similar theme called Commonality

[–] rimu@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I spent a couple of hours playing around with that. It didn't work quite right but still I've got some glorious retro ugliness going on. A mishmash of CDE, Windows 2000 icons and KDE 5, it's mental and I love it.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I bought a book that had Yggdrasil in a CD that I used so I didn't have to go into the university for the Unix labs.

I think that the entirety of the book, around 1,000 pages, was printed out man pages.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Legendary icons for Home and Root.

I'd kill for a functional DE that looks like this. Currently using Chicago95