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Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support  Hackaday

Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News. Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he's better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, "because they actually use Git for everything there." Which he describes as "ridiculous" because he maintained it for just four months before handing it off to Junio Hamano who's been heading up development for more than 19 years now. "When it did what I needed," Torvalds says, "I lost interest." Linus then goes on to share how Git was never a big thing for him, but a means to an end that prevented the Linux kernel from descending into chaos over the absence of a version control system. You see, before Git, Linux used BitKeeper for version control, but its proprietary licensing didn't sit too well with other Linux contributors, and Linus Torvalds had to look for alternatives. As it turned out, existing tools like CVS and Subversion were too slow for the job at hand, prompting him to build a new tool from scratch, with the coding part just taking 10 days for an early self-hostable version of Git. In its initial days, there were some teething issues, where users would complain about Git to Linus, even finding it too difficult to use, but things got calmer as the tool developed further. Torvalds thinks some early adopters had trouble because they were coming from a background that was more like CVS. "The Git mindset, I came at it from a file system person's standpoint, where I had this disdain and almost hatred of most source control management projects, so I was not at all interested in maintaining the status quo."

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SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support  Phoronix

Love GNOME? These 5 Linux Distros Use It as Their Default Desktops  How-To Geek

Love GNOME? These 5 Linux Distros Use It as Their Default Desktops  How-To Geek

What Is Kubuntu Linux, and Should You Use It?  Yahoo

I've Used Kubuntu for 8 Months: What I've Learned About This Linux Distro  How-To Geek

5 Popular Linux Distributions and Who They're Meant For  How-To Geek

Linux 6.16 Could See AMD SEV-SNP SVSM vTPM Driver Merged For EPYC CPUs  Phoronix

Unsure How To Schedule With Cron on Linux? Try One of These GUIs  The New Stack

Best Linux distros for reviving an old PC  Tom's Hardware

7 Settings I Change After Installing Ubuntu  How-To Geek

NVIDIA Upstreaming Work For Linux On Their Smart Switch SN4280, SN5610, SN5640  Phoronix

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News