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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Location has been super annoying for me in Fedora. Neither the weather nor the timezone automatically update for me. And I travel every week for work.

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

Didn't beaconDB have a thing where their Go library was compromised for like a year, or am I thinking of another project? 😬

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

If you're thinking about the recent thing, the real Go library (boltdb/bolt) was not compromised at all. The malware was in a similarly named package (boltdb-go/bolt), this is called "typosquatting".

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I think different, the project is something like 7 months old