[email protected] • 9 months ago

Wait... why does Linux-libre (and #Freedo) exist?

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[email protected] • 9 months ago

Is Linux not free software itself? I thought propietary stuff was added downstream.

Am I getting something wrong?

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Fair enough :)

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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).

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