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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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Mozilla Announces Layoffs, Renews Focus on Firefox (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] halm@leminal.space 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that's fair. I'm not complaining about the work being put into a new browser engine, and there is definitely space for improvement over the ones we have.

Vivaldi, though? I'd vastly prefer an open source browser, and maybe one with less baggage than Vivaldi has — but I'll look forward to any GUI implementation of Servo, when and if, etc.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was more talking about Vivaldi feature-wise, FWIW. There's features I'd like from Vivaldi that don't have a close equivalent to Firefox, not even from its forks (tab tiling's my go-to example), and maybe in the distant future, there'd be a browser like it running on Servo.

[–] Hapbt@mastodon.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@Flaky @halm be nice if you could just essentially plug-in engines and swap them out etc
in theory they are all supposed to support the same standards

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 9 months ago

Hmm. Now there's an idea for developers. Some kind of modular compatibility standard.

[–] chrisg@aus.social 2 points 9 months ago

@Flaky @halm Vivaldi design is _strongly_ reminiscent of Mozilla SeaMonkey (antecedent Netscape Navigator) with a dose of old Opera.