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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).

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Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political! (cdn.masto.host)

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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

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[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

~~He's not Finnish, he's a Swede from Finland. Please attribute the nationality correctly.~~
He's not defending communists. He just points out that 'woke' is a word used in a spiritual context, which doesn't make sense with communism. The header of this thread is a clickbait. Read the article again.

EDIT: He's actually a Swedish-speaking Finnish guy, mea culpa.

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Finns are arch enemies of communists. Show a finnish guy a hammer and sickle, and he'll ... you.

[–] teemuki@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but that's just nonsense. Finland had one of the strongest communist movements in Western Europe during the cold war. Large swaths of Finns happily voted for communists in elections for decades.

[–] triantares@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 year ago

@teemuki @raubarno So did large swaths of Italians, Greeks, French, Dutch and Spanish in the 70s

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