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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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TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards (lemdro.id)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don't: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Linux is the kernel, useless without actual programs to run on it. In general the minimal set of programs to make a Linux system actually useful (cd, ls, cat, ...) are provided by the coreutils package, a GNU project.

RMS, the founder of GNU, was pissed that people were using Linux + his software and simply calling it Linux, so he insisted that the proper generic name for "Linux" distributions was actually "GNU/Linux" (i.e. GNU utilities + Linux kernel).

OP's joke is that we name stuff without specifying their components or needed tools all the time, so we shouldn't bother doing it for Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I understood all of that. I didn't understand the examples. Chisel, David, etc..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Michelangelo's David is a well-known marble statue which was carved using a chisel.