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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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Richard Stallman has cancer (lemmy.ndlug.org)

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

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From his website stallman.org:

Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.

Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sudo apt remove cancer.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Unprivileged users are stuck with cancer. Life ain't fair.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yay -Rns cancer cancer-lib32

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only recently moved to Arch and am still learning, what does the n and s flags do?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

-R removes a package. -Rs makes sure that all the then-unused dependencies are also removed along with it. -Rns is not really recommended for general use, but the -n flag removes configuration backup files (in case you consider those bloat).

For more info, check: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Usage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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

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