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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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Does anybody else want the Linux community to remain small while still making progress (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am personally against gatekeeping anything Including linux , but young naive me from 6 years ago felt this way, and I wanted to see if opinions had changed from back then

I asked this same question 6 years ago on Reddit just wanted to see if general opinion has changed now as Linux has arguably gotten way more mainstream

Edit: Progress meant 3rd party hardware and software support, innovation etc. I decided to rerun this question because of the new discourse surrounding LLM use in the kernel; the pretext being a smaller community would have easily taken a binary decision regarding the matter, for better or worse

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[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would be happy for linux to flatten microslop, it's just a question of whether it would then turn into it in some respects (2026 has already seem some not some awesome changes).

Somewhat along the lines of: If lemmy becomes as large as reddit, lemmy will become trash like reddit.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 21 hours ago

The world belongs to those who do the work. Capitalism sucks, but it's always capitalists who drive the production of things. It doesn't have to be that way but it is because we are lazy. SteamOS exists because Valve put in the work. Any of us here could have made SteamOS. We didn't because we are lazy.