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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] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Arch really does have the most straightforward packaging system. Can you write a Bash script? Cool. You can package your application for Arch very easily.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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 6 days 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

[–] DoeJohn 1 points 5 days ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't the file structure guidelines differ across distros?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, from my testing back when I used Arch, a lot of packages in the AUR didn't meet packaging guidelines, so while quickly writing a PKGBUILD is easy, writing it correctly requires a bit more effort, especially regarding the dependencies. IIRC namcap is often enough, but ideally packages should be built in clean chroots as well to make sure they build everywhere