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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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Come on, really? This article adds nothing of value and just duplicates information already readily available.
I recommend you read @[email protected]'s advice here: https://lemmy.ml/post/74252/comment/67607
Are you creating a scapegoat ? It looks like you are targeting this blogger for no reason this time. Everyone should feel welcome here. I see nothing wrong with the topic of this very blog post.
Scapegoat for what? What would I have to gain? What is wrong with my statement? A scapegoat is "someone who is blamed or punished for another's faults or actions" according to the Cambridge Dictionary. I don't see anyone else secretly at fault here but the author of the post.
To be plain: The article is subpar and I didn't enjoy reading it. I always click on their links to find out if they finally made another good blog post after the single one I read (don't remember what it was about, tbh) but I'm disappointed.
The author spams the [email protected] community with their own blog. It's the most linked blog on the Linux community front page currently, with five articles. That would be OK for me if it wasn't empty hulls of articles but interesting opinion pieces or information which can't be found on every wiki out there.
Especially for this article there are countless better and just as useless ones already out there. The first page of Google already gives me nine useless articles and this one: https://devconnected.com/how-to-add-user-to-sudoers-on-ubuntu-20-04/ – that has screenshots and explains what sudo is and what you can do with it.
I agree to both of this. I don't say they're not welcome here, just that most of the content on their blog is of no interest to me and doesn't add value to the Internet. It would be okay if they didn't spam the whole Linux community with their blog so it's basically the only thing they contribute. This is how their post history looks like:
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78% of their recent posts are their own content. Their own content is explaining stuff from a point of view of a Linux newbie to other newbies. Sometimes it's incomplete, sometimes the information isn't quite correct.
E.g. in this post, they claim they have to become root with
suand then add a superfluoussudoat the beginning of the next command. Also adding people to thesudogroup is not a guaranteed way to get sudo rights on all Linux systems, so they should've added the distribution this works on, which then would at least have provided searchability.The author also often doesn't reply to feedback, which I don't like. I'm free to express my dislike about this. I'll also refrain from posting any feedback, criticism or comments whatsoever to their posts unless they're promoting something which is outright dangerous, which I seriously doubt.