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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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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.

I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn't seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text 2.

[1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Lemmy's markdown does actually have footnotes!^[they work like this: ^[text here]]

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Eh, Lemmy Connect does not format it properly.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

Neither does Voyager (Wefwef) :(

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