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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mailing lists are a platform/protocol not really a UI. IRC is trash if all you are using is some terrible web UI, but much better with proper native apps designed around its use cases. Mailing lists are a massive improvement over Discord that so many projects tend to use instead. I'd take a mailing list over a Discord "server" every day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, I'm not even talking about the UI, but the UX of mailinglists. The UI is terrible, but I find the UX even worse.

IRC is yet another protocol from another era. Most clients don't parse links and don't provide link previews, don't support code blocks or syntax highlighting, don't support threads, don't support listing the slash commands, don't support images, don't support markdown, no audio, no video, servers can't group chat rooms like matrix, there's no encryption either, ...
It's just shit.

If it were the choice between mailinglist and discord, I wouldn't take either and not communicate altogether. Fuck those both.

Edit: sorry, I really dislike IRC, mailinglists and discord. It's fine if you do like mailinglists and IRC. You do you 👍

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It always bewilders me to hear that some peasants adopted discord server out of all things for an open source project.