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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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What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)? (slrpnk.net)

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[–] frozencow 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nix with nix-output-monitor (nom). https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor

It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying.

I haven't seen this in other package managers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Very neat, thanks for sharing!