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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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What's the difference between package manager and why are there so many? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are they so different that it's justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other's packages but usually you are bound to one manager

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response. I anticipated "it's slow" but I guess that just doesn't bother me because otherwise I dig dnf/rpm over any other combo I've tried.

For example - a one liner to identify all packages from a particular repo is trivial with dnf, huge pain with apt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm a pacman/yay guy myself. Haven't used apt for too long. Even when I run something with apt, I install nala