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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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[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rock solid may be a stretch. They still suffer from outrageous metadata bugs even to this day when used in busy file systems.

That bug alone has been open for over a decade. Development focus of the people who understand and want to fix those things have shifted to other filesystems like ext4 and ZFS.

[–] gnumdk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Main reason I stopped using it ten years ago.