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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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So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I've rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I'm still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 months ago (6 children)

If you have a LS-120, it will eject the floppy disc like you were on dome fancy-pants Macintosh!

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I've never encountered another LS-120 user before. When it came out I assumed it would be the future, because 120 megabyte freaking laser assisted floppy, am I right? Turns out I was very much mistaken, and CD-R took over.

I also made the same mistake regarding CF vs SD cards.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

CF, or their follow-up CFast, are still in industrial PCs - at least in the Beckhoff IPCs my (ok, more like "my customers") Automat is sporting

Used as system storage and easy to swap for the customer in regards of backups, if something breaks

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