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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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This is stupid. It’s just linux, but running on someone else’s computer.
…which runs on top of Linux
i hate clickbait so much. Are there extensions for firefox that change clickbait back to regular titles? I heard something like this exists. Sounds like i should use it.
Tell me if you find one lol
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cloud-2-butt-plus/
Would have worked a charm for this particular article
You might be thinking of this extension, which is only for YouTube, though: https://dearrow.ajay.app
Ah! Thanks. That might be it.
Well, yes and no. It depends on whether you call the Linux kernel as what makes Linux the OS or not.
For any operating system there are the kernel components and user space components. The GUI in any operating system is going to be user space.
They also suggest it’s a “minimalized” Linux microkernel. I kinda agree with this approach, why re-invent the wheel when you can cherry-pick the parts of the existing Linux kernel to make your foundations. The huge caveat in my mind is, the scheduler of modern OS’ is what they were complaining about most. I bet the scheduler is one of the things they took from the Linux kernel.
As for the rest of the project. I don’t think there’s enough meat in this article to say much, and the very limited free version seems a bit too limited to make a good review of how useful it would be.
I’ll wait until I’m told I need to port X aspect of my job to DBOS to see if it became a thing or not. :P
I was curious as to whether this was proprietary or not, but code for some operating system components is available online: https://github.com/DBOS-project
Time will tell as to whether this ends up gaining momentum or not, right now it seems pretty niche… Cloud providers ultimately will need to show interest for this to go anywhere I think
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Buddy, I just made a post about this a few hours ago here ^^
Why the down votes?
This got me quite a little excited at first, but then…
… the cold shower hit.