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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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Quick tip for the author and those reading, instead of doing as in the article noted e.g.
sudo nano
or the like, you can usesudoedit
(orsudo -e
). The advantage of this is that it will use whatever you have configured as an editor (through$SUDO_EDITOR
,$VISUAL
or$EDITOR
), and will use your configuration files while editing instead of root's, meaning if you have a sick custom neovim or emacs setup you don't have to keep those settings files in sync with the root account. ;)I use it at work with many servers like
EDITOR=vim sudo -e /etc/samba/smb.conf
However useful when you need some color highlighting or just numers then add it to
.vimrc
andEDITOR=vim
in Bash config.