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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).

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Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux Port at a Time (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a lot and honest work!

Although I sometimes question the purpose of preserving the past, I really respect people who put in the effort to make something timeless. A time capsule for the future to study an irrelevant and forgotten past.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Those games are hardly irrelevant or distant past. I've enjoyed a lot of them in the humble bundles and I still play some others. The fact that he was also porting them to Linux is fantastic.