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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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Linux Directory Structure - FHS (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On my distro(Bazzite), /mnt is only a symlink to /var/mnt. Not sure why, but only found out the other day.

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

I’m using Silverblue and it also symlinks to /var/mnt. I don’t think it does that on traditional distros, like Fedora 40 Workstation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I assume it is because /var can be written to while the rest of the filesystem ( outside /home ) is expected to be read-only.