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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] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Haven't tried openSUSE Tumbleweed yet but I heard it's a great stable rolling release distro. I might give it a try. How's the package manager?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Good but slow. Zypper has nice features but for some reason it can only download one package at a time. There is a GitHub issue about this that has been around for years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's great, there's a toolbx/distrobox image, check it out

$ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/opensuse-toolbox:tumbleweed
$ toolbox enter opensuse-toolbox-tumbleweed

I'd go for the atomic version nowadays

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why is firefox one version behind?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The latest version probably hasn't passed qc yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

rolling release is not the same as bleeding edge mind you. While Tumblweed is very close to bleeding edge it does actually do a load of quality control and automated test before making the updates available in the repos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's a reason not to use the suse repo. Alpha or maybe beta is bleeding edge. One month behind is just one month behind.