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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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Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by Dymonika@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Sure, I know a lot of projects have been on GH since before MS bought it, but they've owned it for quite a while now, so we really should be seeing better migration out by now, no?

Codeberg is nonprofit which seems more in the spirit of the Linux ecosystem overall. GH is for-profit...

EDIT: All right, all right, I've gotten schooled. Thank you, O wise ones; I didn't realize how much Microsoft literally depends on Linux, among other things. I will proceed to shut up.

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[–] Dymonika@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Fair, but what about the Copilot-pockmarking? And they're always one step away from a paywall... Why wait until it gets that bad versus at least duplicating elsewhere now?

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Worth noting that the Linux source is updated and collaborated with via email, not GitHub. The Linux repo on GitHub is a read-only mirror.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Aye, but that's not true of the Linux OS's based on it

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

All these projects for sure are cloned on multiple backups, if something happens and github is no longer viable it is a minimal effort to clone the source code and bug tracking and move it somewhere else. Serious projects will have contingenties in place for this, lesser projects will do what the big guys do

[–] lemongarlic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Plenty of companies are quite happy to pay for github licenses

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 0 points 3 days ago

Why wait until it gets that bad versus at least duplicating elsewhere now?

so why aren't you volunteering your time and effort to help at least one project migrate, instead of just complaining they haven't?