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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] 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I feel like you guys aren't really "explaining like I'm 5". Let me show you:
Sometimes, when a mommyboard and a daddy graphics card fall in love, the daddy graphics card puts his connector pins inside the mommyboard's expansion slot. Then when they both get turned on, millions of tiny electrons surge out of his connector pins and into her expansion slot, where they travel up through mommyboard's data bus, and into one of her memory cards. Meanwhile, there are thousands of image files inside mommy's storage drives waiting to come to life, and every once in a while one of them ventures out of the storage drive and into her memory card. And if the electrons and the image file happen to meet at the same time, then 9 milliseconds later, a picture of a baby appears on the monitor!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

please tag this NSFW

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's more incestuous than that... It's a Motherboard with a Daughterboard. 😲

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

And wayland represents the overly friendly postman that left the house with a satisfied smirk just as the daddy board came home from his hard workday as an xorg liason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are you doing, step-board?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Wearing a "hat"!