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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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The worst part about the enshittification of RHEL is how Flatpak will suffer (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Did you mean to add a link or something to explain why you think so?

Flatpack is literally the opposite of the RHEL model that relies on vendor lock-in due to 3rd party software only supporting specific versions of a specific Linux distribution. So this might very well end up helping Flatpak, if vendors make more widely compatible Flatpaks instead of RHEL only versions from now on.