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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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Difference between Github, Gitlab, Forgejo ? (lemmy.ml)

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

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Another "Differences in Linux" question :)

I often wonder, what exactly is the difference between this services?

I understand, that:

github.com is a company, where as gitlab and forgejo are (softwares)?
They all "manage/wrap/interface with" git?

Questions:

what software does github.com use?
whats the difference between them (pros/cons)?
what about self-hosting? Possibilities/Preferences?

As always, thanks beforehand :)

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[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

The difference with a small group of devs writing code and offering it free and corporate thugs treating coders like sponges to produce code is the lack of resources can be understood and forgiven. Take a project like brave-nightly (browser fork of glugle-elechrom) there are 3-5-8 new releases a day, 8-6 Pacific US time, when they go home on Fri. the next release is Monday afternoon, the "free" coders usually begin work Friday night and end Monday at dawn!

Sure, corp.XYZ sends them an offer one day and buys their work and even offers them incentives to work for them, then it all goes down hill!

It ends up being as nasty racist and ethnocentric as kernel.org.com - us state dept fed and controlled