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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 was your first Linux distribution? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 21 hours ago by midtsveen@lemmy.wtf to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm new to #Lemmy and making myself feel at home by posting a bit!

My first Linux distribution was elementary OS in early March 2020. Since then, I’ve tried Manjaro, Arch Linux, Fedora, went back to Manjaro, and since early January 2023, I’ve landed on Debian as my home in the #Linux world.

What was your first Linux distro?

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[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not the guy who first commented, but NixOS is fun because you can have the whole config in a git repo, and can easily reproduce. Main drawback is that Nix as a language is insane and that a lot of packages still aren’t available

[–] algernon@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

While I am not a fan of Nix the language, it is no more insane than ansible or kubernetes yaml soups.

As for packages... nixpkgs is by far the largest repo of packaged software. There are very few things I haven't found there - and they are usually not in any other distro either.