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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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KDE 6 FOR ARCH LINUX IS HEREEEEEEE (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NixOS has had it for a few days already 😎

Who's the real rolling distro now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Arch really makes sure stuff are compatible before rolling, my 32bit Void laptop has had Python 3.12 for months, and I get all kind of weird warnings when installing Python packages, while Arch is still on 3.11 (maybe testing is on 3.12 idk)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's that, and there's also the fact that there's only so many maintainer volunteer manhours. It happens to every distro, it just so hapenned that NixOS was faster this time. Though OpenSuse and NixOS suffer from this a bit less, as they've gone out of their way to automate large parts of their update and testing infrastructure(OpenSuse automates everything, I think?).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Part of that is that NixOS had a flake for Plasma 6 throughout the RC phases. So when it hit release, it was mostly just a case of merging it into nixpkgs proper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Thank @[email protected] ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Indeed, I was using that flake for some time. K900 did the Lord's work.