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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 distro(s) do you use? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by owatnext to c/[email protected]

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What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[–] lhx 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ooooh is that like a pseudo docker-compose type thing to learn the declarative language?

[–] neoney 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

am not familiar with docker-compose

[–] lhx 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s docker’s declarative way to set up one or more images, network them together and externally, etc… it looks a bit similar to the nix language.

[–] neoney 2 points 1 year ago

I guess you could compare the two then, but Nix is a full on functional programming language with functions, variables etc. You can also define derivations to compile programs with it. It’s pretty cool.