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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] 8 points 6 months ago

I disagree with @[email protected] (sorry!)

Don't say sorry for making an actual argument, or are you some Canadian lol?

at least 15 contributors left a few days ago

According to this list there are 3470 maintainers. Were those 15 doing so much work to warrant calling it the end of days?

What this means is that you risk your packages getting out of date, including slow delivery of security updates

A possible delay for some package updates vs certainly outdated packages in my native Debian. Not really a choice IMO