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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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Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

doesn’t even have any good pacman wrappers since yaourt (that I’m aware of).

paru is cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And the older yay

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

I have an hard time moving out of yay... TBH if AUR could be installable from pacman it would be awesome

[–] gfrewqpoiu 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is technically possible to install paru through Cargo which you can get just from pacman by installing rust and you can install pikaur through PIP. Both can mess with your systems packages though so I do not recommend it.

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

Oh thank you for the tip, I forgot paru was written in rust and of course rustup is on ally machines (btw?) ;)