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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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[–] vsis@feddit.cl 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I was surprised that gnome ships with comes with it in default.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What distros don't include tmux and vim? Ubuntu has had them for at least a decade.

[–] vsis@feddit.cl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

by default?

My work laptop came with Ubuntu preinstaled and didn't have tmux nor htop.

Vim is not present by default in at least debian and arch. Although vi is present in every distribution I believe.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I can see that being the case for the Desktop variant. For the Server variant you get vim and tmux out of the box.