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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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Google Chrome severely damaged extensions, time to move to a better browser (youtu.be)

submitted 1 month ago by drascus@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] magguzu@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I wish Apple would open source Safari, or at least make some "Safarium" others can build on. Would be an instant third player without all the growing pains.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The core of Safari (WebKit) is open source. If it weren't they'd be violating the GPL license of KHTML.

[–] magguzu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah, admittedly I don't know much. Could another browser build on it like Chromium or Firefox?

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Smaller browsers built on webkit do exist; see 'Epiphany', 'surf', 'luakit', and 'Nyxt'. Qt's web component used to be based on webkit as well, though they've switched to Blink (Chromium).

Unfortunately, none of the browsers listed above are 100% sufficient to replace Firefox. They all rely on GTK bindings on webkit, which has its own quirks; and none have support for webextensions.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Yes! In fact, Chromium was originally a fork of WebKit, as WebKit was a fork of KHTML. In both cases the codebases have diverged quite significantly though.

[–] Loucypher@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Yep, check Orion browser

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I said they're the new IE for a reason.

The w3c standard: ok so we all agreed that this feature will be placed in the body tag

Blink: ofc, that's what I've been telling you

Gecko: sure, idc

WebKit: yeah nah, put it in the html

So many little senseless gotchas like that that exist for no reason that to be iSpecial