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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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Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Aside from the god-awful installer (which they’re replacing), and the ball ache of installing media codecs, it’s an amazing distro.

yeah, so I got AMD graphics and it was news to me that from now till the end of days, you're supposed to run dnf up thusly:

sudo dnf up -x mesa-va-drivers

that suffix prevents fedora's shitty mesa from interfering with your cool mesa from rpmfusion, even though you swapped shitty-mesa with cool-mesa, as instructed. apparently, they started forcing this shit recently, can't remember ever having to do this, from F35 on up to F39.

this feels like a new take on wrestling Ubuntu and its snap monstrosity, you ripped shit out and thought you were fine. not so, we want shit done to your computer, even though you're like against it but you don't really mean it, right? man, gtfo with that bullshit, go break a Gnome extension or something and leave this shit be!

that's mentioned NOWHERE - not in the rpmfusion howto's, not in askfedora/fedora magazine (but there are swaths of jerkoffs going "well that's a risk when using 3rd party shit"), nor any step-by-step articles I looked at, I accidentally found it buried in a 3rd level comment of some rando reddit discussion.

edit: the installer sucks big fat elephant dick.