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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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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

ooh, available for “x86_65” on Alpine

(and they’ve fixed that now)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have you really not heard of it? It is a new architecture that is a bit better than x64_64.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Finally. 65 bit processor.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

x86_64++

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Plus ultra!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

imagine the nightmare of writing a 65 bit instruction set

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it has to be a nightmare per se if you start from scratch.

Instead of 8-bit bytes, you have 5-bit "bytes" (fyves?) Hoozah! Done.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

only if double precision can be called high fyves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is a mandatory rule now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Now imagine designing a 65 bit computer. The bus, registers, alu...

You'll probably waste a lotta chips since most of them are designed for working with powers of 2