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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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These past two weeks in KDE: massive stability work for Plasma 6.1 (pointieststick.com)

submitted 5 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Sorry for the interruption last week; I was on vacation. While I was vacating, my colleagues were in full-on fix-everything mode in preparation for the upcoming Plasma 6.1 release in a little over a week. And what a release it promises to be! I think this is going to be a good one, folks. Lots of great features, improved performance and smoothness, and oodles of fixes for all kinds of strange bugs with your wild and wacky hardware devices!

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot of bug fixes.

[–] kurumin@linux.community 4 points 5 months ago

KDE team works a lot! 👊

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I was vacating my colleagues...

I'm reminded of a scene from The Wire:

https://youtu.be/h5d82ndui_s

(I know. I removed a comma from the quote, but that's how I read it)

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