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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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[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

There was a system I was a user on once a long time ago, user being important, where I got into the habit of running kill -9 -1 to literally (SIG)KILL all processes to log out. It meant I didn't leave anything running and I had already saved my work. Never had a problem with it. It only killed processes my account had access to, after all.

Later I used it to log out of a system I was root on.

root. oh no.

There was no grinding and crunching of gears, but my brain plays that sound effect anyway.

Thus the habit was very quickly unlearned.