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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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Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Debian in many ways isn't as slow-moving as people think.

For example, they moved to Wayland by default (for Gnome anyway) in 2019. A number of well-known distros likely won't have that until 2025/2026 or beyond.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sadly they've been dropping archs throughout the years, meaning they're no longer the distro you can use to run on "anything" from a pi to a mainframe...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't trixie still support like a dozen arches? I think one of the more recent deprecations was MIPS BE which is functionally obsolete in 2024, at least insofar as practically no one is using it to run a modern distribution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Bookworm, Trixie, and Sid all currently support a total of 10 different architectures.

And looking through the Wikipedia article for Debian's version history, most of the dropped architectures were functionally obsolete when they were dropped, or like the Motorola 68000, when support was added. (notable exceptions being IA-64 which was dropped 4 years before intel discontinued it, SPARC which is still supported by Oracle, and PowerPC.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If your bar is "modern distribution" stick to Ubuntu.

If you want to maintain older hardware Debian used to be a go-to solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's the go-to solution now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Most likely LFS or some tailored distro I haven't heard of.