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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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Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha (blog.system76.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eventually, yes. It may be faster available if you contribute on maintaining the packages, though.

[–] mmababes 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

How do I do that?

I'm relatively new to linux but I have some experience with Java and Python

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Should be straight forward. If you willing to do all the work, the Debian community should be very welcoming

https://www.debian.org/intro/help

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Packaging doesn't usually require programming knowledge. Usually just a little bit of bash and reading the documentation.