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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).

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If only more Linux programs followed sandboxing best practices... (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

[...] aren't there some folks who want flatpak/snap/appimage to basically replace traditional package managers?

There might be people who think that, but that isn't realistic. Flatpak is a package manager for user facing apps, mostly gui apps.

The core system apps will still be installed by a system package manager. I.e rpm-ostree on immutable Fedora or transactional-update/zypper on OpenSUSE MicroOS.

Snap can do system apps and user facing apps and fully snap-based Ubuntu might come in the future.

But this won't force people to use them. Traditional package managers will keep existing for system apps and maintainers will proabably keep their gui packages in the repos.