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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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SELinux and confined users, make the Linux Desktop more secure (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

while i think that ansible is really cool, it's not the same as Nix.

correct me if i'm wrong, but afaik Ansible just modifies the current state of the System with a declarative configuration.

Nix reverts your system back to install and then applies the configuration. The result is that in Nix if i remove something from the configuration.nix it is as if it never existed, whereas on Ansible it stays unless i manually run a task to uninstall it.