Born in Croatia on May 25, 1892 of a native peasant and a Slovene mother.
Kumrovec lies in the Croatian Zagorje and Croatia was still under Austro-Hungarian rule. Broz worked as a mechanic in small workshops. During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. He was captured as a prisoner of war and transported to the Russian interior. He joined a Bolshevik group while in prison and after escaping, he joined the Bolshevik Red Guards several months before the October Revolution.
He was registered as a member of the Communist party. Back in Yugoslavia, he continued his revolutionary work as a secretary of a metal union. He was picked up and spent six years in prison. He was released in 1934 and joined the Comintern in Moscow. Visited Moscow several times and was appointed Secretary of Yugoslav Communist Party in 1937. His success was due in part to the internal rivalry of communist leaders. In January 1939, he was officially appointed general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party.
After Nazi invasion, set up his Partisans in Southern Serbia in 1941, and led by far the most powerful resistance movement in Europe. By end of the War, Tito’s forces had control of the whole country. Refused to take Stalin’s direction, and was expelled from the Cominform in 1948. Remained leader of the country till his death in 1980.
From then on, Tito had a major voice in all the ensuing phases of the Yugoslav revolution. During World War II, he became commander in chief of the partisan armed forces. In 1943, the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Yugoslavia established the second Yugoslavia as a federal socialist republic of six republics. Tito had to make use of all his charisma to convince his comrade-partisans that all peoples of Yugoslavia should be granted equal rights. The partisan struggle ended with a complete victory of the communists. Supported strategically by their allies, both of the West and the East, complying formally with some demands for a multi-party system, Tito could form his first government on March 7, 1945.
More dangerous for Tito’s political career was the clash with the USSR. The Cominform conflict led to a break with Moscow. Tito’s internal power base was threatened as well, and large-scale purges in the party were bitterly needed. Needed also was an alternative ideology. In the beginning of the 1950s self-management was rediscovered in Marx’s writings and step by step introduced in Yugoslavia.
After the fall of hardliner Ranković, economic and political liberalization broke through and this threatened the party monopoly anew. At the same time, on advice of the Slovene Edvard Kardelj, he pushed through constitutional reforms to take the wind out of the sails of nationalism. By granting more autonomy, responsibility and formal self-government to the republics, he hoped to reduce the tensions between the federal units. In the same spirit, he set up a federal presidency structure to ensure the continuity of the system after his death.
In international affairs, Tito profited much from the rivalries of the two blocs during the Cold War. He played a leading role in the movement of the so-called Non-Aligned Countries.
Tito died in May 1980 and the structures set up to ensure continuity functioned more or less satisfactorily for a few years. Then, divergent aspirations could no longer be reconciled and the federal structure exploded.
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Anybody have any strong Linux distro opinions? I think I’ve settled on EndeavourOS with KDE. It’s like a slightly more user friendly Arch. I’ve tried OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, KDE Neon, and some others but I can’t live without the AUR for software. Endeavor is cool because it doesn’t come with a graphical software manager, but doing it from the terminal is easy.
My strong opinion is that I think NixOS is pretty cool 😎
I like arch but never ran it on my main computer really. Mostly used KDE with it tho I dabbled in i3 once I keep getting stuck with ubuntu derivatives for “it just works” factor, and for work reasons. I really wanna get into SXMO tho (simple/suckless linux on a phone)
Suckless people are techno-reactionaries trying to replicate a mythic Unix past that hasn’t existed for like 30+ years and can never exist again
Some of their software is okay though I suppose
yeah I honestly don’t really know what it means so I probably shouldn’t have used it as a descriptor.
I just mean software that tries to keep things simple and customizable
Oh you’re good lol
I’m just in a weird sleep-deprived ranting mood
:rat-salute:
I have gotten weird vibes off some of these guys so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised they’re reactionaries
Yeahh tbh, in a political sense a lot of them are libertarian or Ayn Rand-adjacent types
But I just meant more like that Unix is a dead end for simple and “sucking-less” software at this point cuz its design never kept up with ubiquitous internet-connected computers with large variety of peripherals and capabilities (which is why the Bell Labs Unix people designed Plan 9) but the suckless people think this is primarily a problem of people having a wrong approach to software development rather than being limited by conditions and systems in which and on which software is developed (coconut tree, etc) and that we just need to retvrn to the old days
I still don’t fully understand how plan 9 solves these issues if I’m being honest, and I have done some light reading on it. I mean some of the ideas are solid and less of a hack than the stack built on top of linux, but what makes a usable system is critical mass more than anything ig?
Arch Linux isn’t hard, it’s just tedious and annoying cuz very little is automated for you like any other operating system developer would do for you. Gentoo is worse but at least it has a purpose in being a source-based distribution with some kind of agonizing granular feature selection
Also most Linux distros do things basically the same way at this point with few exceptions, the idea of some kind of “customizability” mainly has little actual reflection in reality
Use whatever makes you happy and whatever has “”“fast”“” security updates lmao
My only strong distro opinion is that I’m not going back to Manjaro
Alpine Linux is cool
But have you ever tried one of the BSDs?
Also if you like the AUR you might like the BSD “ports” system, it’s basically the same thing tbh
NixOS ended my distro hopping (so far). I really like the ability to modularize my configuration, so I can share config between devices easily. And once it’s working, I so far haven’t had any issues with updates that couldn’t be solved by booting into the last good version.
I’ve jumped on the Fedora Atomic Desktop train so far. Transactional, OCI-based updates are so worth the peace of mind they provide. No worries about package dependencies being corrupted or risk of a bad update, just rollback and wait for a better update. Then you get to things like Distrobox and you can basically have any program compiled for GNU/Linux that you want + flatpaks. All with the latest up to date software that receives major upgrades every 6 months (2 major versions a year!)
You also then have communities like Universal Blue who create custom operating system images like Bazzite (a complete, batteries included, gaming operating system) that are just plug and play. Or the Fedora Asahi SIG who bring Apple Silicon to Linux.
Fedora is hands-down the #1 GNU/Linux distribution, literal A+ in every category you can think of. Unless you live in a remote region with limited bandwidth (which then you should use Debian), Fedora should be your first choice.
Endeavor is uncool because it turns people away from arch linux. There will never be a graphical installer for arch linux for a very good reason, it sets the tone for what the distribution aims to achieve and what’s expected of you.
EndeavourOS and any arch derivative are useless, use vanilla arch with
archinstall, if you can’t do that then one should not even think about daily driving arch. Garuda, Endeavour, Manjaro etc. should not exist as a distro but just config files or standalone applications. IMO if someone can’t handle vanilla arch, then don’t use arch linux at all!