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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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Dennis Richie is a personal hero of mine and i go out of my way to buy a cake every September 9th to celebrate his contributions to the world. It's a real shame his passing was overshadowed at the time.
Overshadowed? What was it overshadowed by?
Steve Jobs died one week earlier.
Who?
Some business guy, who stole ideas, apparently.
“Great artists steal” — Steve Jobs ( or Faulkner, or Picasso, or Stravinsky )
Sorry, unrelated, but my Lemmy client says that you have “-1” downvotes and 49 upvotes. How is that even possible? It should only be a positive integer. On the web client, it shows nothing for downvotes, but says 48 upvotes instead of 49…
Interesting... I only see 49 both on web and client.