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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, while lots of people have plenty of other reasons for using Arch. The packaging system is my personal favorite. I have made packages for deb and rpm based systems before, but Arch is just so dead simple with little scripts preinstalled to make it even easier.

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

Can AUR be used by other distros like Debian or fedora?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Technically yes, but practically no. For the same reasons that manjaro might struggle with the aur even though it is technically arch based.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, no, but you can get kind of close for Debian distros with LURE.

EDIT: Apparently LURE is supposed to be distro-agnostic, so it'd probably work for EL too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't the file structure guidelines differ across distros?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah. I haven't looked at the code that closely, but it looks like they account for various differences between distros.

[–] Classy 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely agree, the wholeapt-get upgrade (or however, I always messed it up!) was annoying to me, and I switched to an arch distro (Endeavour) and I'm super happy with it. It's my only machine and it is awesome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

You don't need to type apt-get, you can just do apt upgrade.