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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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So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been using linux for more than a decade at this point, but in all that time I've rarely had a disk drive. The fact that this command exists and is just, one of the core utils included with your distro along with su and kill and mount and more is just… so beautiful. 10 years amore with this OS and I'm still learning things that the elders in the audience are snickering at me for only learning 5 minutes ago while they were popping their disk trays open with a single command back when disk drives were a non optional component.

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[–] DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world 156 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Very helpful command it was for those, whose modem had to be rebooted daily back in the day: Have a cron-job open the tray, which in turn was placed strategically so that it would hit the reset button of the modem, then close the tray. And voilà; automatic reboot of the modem. Robotics at its finest!

[–] art@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

In the early 2000s, only my rich friends had cell phones. My roommate and I both had accounts on each other's machines so we could telnet into them on the same local network.

We used to do this all the time to each other. It was funny to us 25 years ago. It's still funny now.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago

That is fantastic.