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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).

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gits motto should be “fuck around and find out”

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

More like "don't fuck around but find out anyway".

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Fuck around, have no idea HOW you fucked around, fuck around some more trying to fix it, find out how badly you've collectively fucked around"

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

That's what the reflog is for!

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

More like “don’t fuck around (but of course the answer is some subset of git checkout (which is probably Turing-fucking-complete)), and find out anyway”.