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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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Linux user here. What's a friend?
I searched the web and found this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends
It's a class that's allowed to access another class's private members. Obviously Linus doesn't have any, because he codes in C.
Private members aren't actively blocked from external access; they're passively marked "Access prohibited".
That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can't pick up on the signals telling them that they're not wanted.
(Fellow C programmers: I'm joking. :D)
i think you are mistaking
friendswith theboyfriendsclassIt’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file.
That would be reported.
Friends don't let friends be root.
It's a user group
Friend here, what's a linux?