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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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I will be returning from a month-long vacation next week. Let’s see if my arch machine will break completely! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ouigol@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Last time I didn’t upgrade for a long while some drivers broke, maybe I’ll just switch to NixOS this time since it seems interesting. Does anyone here use NixOS? What do you think about it?

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[–] jaykstah@waveform.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've gone like 5 moths without updating a laptop on Arch before and the only thing I had to deal with was updating keyring first

[–] bzxt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Same, maybe even longer in my case.

[–] flo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's usually how it goes...sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring and you're good. Until you notice that all your python packages are broken because of 3.11 ;)