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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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LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA (stgraber.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There’re discussions to drop the X11 backend with the release of GTK 5.

A question of what will happen to the X11 backend is not the same as an active push for the removal of X11 just for the sake of it, as it was claimed.

Chances are at least the Valve side of Wine development work will not care for Wine's X11 support either after SteamOS will only run Proton natively on Wayland instead of XWaxland as is the case now.