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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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[–] mekhos@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Funding is intended to boost GTK, Flatpak, and Progressive Web Aps in particular.

[–] iocseb@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do we trust a centralized app store based on Flatpak more than snapcraft, which is owned by Canonical? What is the difference between these two from a ideological perspective?

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Flatpak is completely open source, meaning you can create your own Flatpak repository if you want to, like Fedora does, where they provide a filtered list of packages from Flathub, but only those who are FOSS (or FLOSS, I'm not 100% sure on that).