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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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Thanks. Bookmarking for future reference.
Juwt remember "man chmod".
Also, they didn't mention it but you can always just do this (the easy way, thanks to GNU):
chmod a+x somefile
to give it execute bits. It works intuitively like that forw
andr
permissions too.It's just quicker to type out
chmod 775
than it is to do it the other way 🤷