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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just leave all config in memory. If the user really cared, they would never reboot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just hard code all config in the source code. If the user really cared, they would recompile from source.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

A suckless fan I see

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I deliberately run / and /home as tmpfs. Then everything I want to persist across boots gets symlinked in at system start, and anything I didn't opt in to saving gets deleted every boot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

“Developers hate him for this one cool trick.”