this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
141 points (91.2% liked)

Linux

48222 readers
903 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's not like they're stuck on some outdated proprietary engine like RPG Maker. Minetest is under active development, with a small list of dependencies that are also under active development. It is under no particular rush to get off of X11/Xwayland.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Xwayland

Is that a typo or is that distinct from just straight Wayland?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html

It provides backwards compatibility for running X apps under Wayland.

load more comments (1 replies)