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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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[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Donates or "donates"? As "all yours" or as in "it's ours but you do the work"?

[–] GammaGames 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

as in “your fork is official now, we have our own compatability in .net and there’s no need to maintain it”

The recognition is nice, but there hadn’t been a major release in over 5 years. I’d guess the outcome is mostly paperwork

[–] finley@lemm.ee 32 points 4 months ago

And that’s how you know it’s worthless

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 23 points 4 months ago

Okay, a suspicious thanks to you, Microsoft...

...So when can we get this treatment for WMR so all our VR headsets don't become useless bricks kthaaaanks!

[–] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Technical debt is transferred to Wine team.

[–] Templa 9 points 4 months ago

They were already maintaining a fork of it though?

[–] Charadon@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 4 months ago

"""donates"""

[–] noxfriend 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does Mono have any purpose any longer? What is the point now that dotnet core is so well-established?

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Mono is used by Wine to support Windows .NET applications since it's a) open source and b) contains support for Windows Forms and other Windows-only APIs.

They can't ship the regular .NET framework by default for licensing reasons but it can be installed with winetricks to replace Mono, which is sometimes necessary for compatibility reasons.

[–] noxfriend 2 points 4 months ago
[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft donated mono to the wine project

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 months ago

Yea I know. But I still can't believe it.

Microsoft finally sees they can't code.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago

Well that was unexpected

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago

This is a different community all together

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not a repost if it's in a different community

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference? Thanks for sharing the repost. It let's us see the comments in both communities

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What’s the difference?

Technicalities... it has been cross-posted, i hadn't noticed it.

[–] drwho 2 points 4 months ago