this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
1237 points (95.7% liked)

Linux

48404 readers
728 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If my /bin contains exe files, something has gone very wrong somewhere...

Also, all these infographics are a sad casualty of the /usr/bin merge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

/bin confused me for a while because I thought it meant 'this stuff is trash, don't worry about it'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Linux file system is ext* tho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it just me, or are the definitions for /sys and /proc mixed up?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, it's just that /proc is incorrect - it contains information about running processes, as well as kernel data structures as visible by the process reading them.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

huh... an exe in my /bin ?

sus...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a version of this that wasn't awkwardly resized?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.

[–] Mwa 3 points 2 months ago

idk if unix or linux file system

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

reminded me of this picture

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since almost everything on the right would be located in /home/ on the left, it should include some of the subdirectories of %windir%\

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

welp, it's another story how useful is this picture 😄, it just came to my mind and brought me some nostalgia in the meantime towards the artist. (yeah, saying artist in this case is strange, but otherwise who made this is a digital artist, or was, idk how active still)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.

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

wow i have needed this forever and im printing it and pinning it to my wall

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›