this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
202 points (93.5% liked)

Linux

47952 readers
1332 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
[–] qwesx@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And then there's the installation options that look and behave exactly like a regularly themed Qt application (which it probably is). Wonderful!
Okay, I'm coming from Gentoo and Debian, cut me some slack, I'm easy to please regarding installers :-P

[–] zib@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 months ago

No shame in that, I also get the warm fuzzies when I see a nice installer.

[–] MenacingPerson@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

yeah, if I remember, they use something called libYUI which translates to a Qt application or TUI depending on requirements