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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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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's image based, so it's very hard for a beginner to fuck it up, and if they do its one or two lines of commands to fix 99% of the time.

eg rpm-ostree rebase or rpm-ostree reset