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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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This whole anti-systemd thing is so pathetic.
Right. What's stopping anyone from maintaining the ONE PURE SYSTEM-FREE DISTRO (tm)? If it's -that- much of an issue, surely there's enough of a userbase to justify maintaining such a distro and suite of apps? We're running an operating system whose very foundation exists due to forks and splits... some of which went on to be extremely popular defaults. Instead we get an insufferable rant blaming millennials for everything. Literally. Author blames millennials for Firefox, Librewolf and Thunderbird apparently expediting the death of non-systemd setups.
And then we have a spiel about Chrome... "which is a violent security violator bootstrapping itself deep into the base system"... oh lord. Yeah. Someone forgot to take his meds. We're about one step away from someone asking him where on the Android plush doll the author touched by the Big Bad Google Man in a Trenchcoat.
Angry old man angry that the world hasn't remained exactly the same for his benefit alone.
Damn, You weren't kidding. the article would be comical if it weren't so worrying for his mental state.