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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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Switching to a sid repo via /etc/apt/sources.list and then avoiding any -critical- packages is (pretty much) all I need to do to run Debian unstable, right? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GustavoM to c/[email protected]

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Title. Probably the dumbest thing I ever posted in my entire lifetime, but there you have it. Downvote at your own leisure.

t. Am using Orange pi zero 3, with "technically zero" linux support, trying to figure out a way to make it have PROPER linux support. And yes, I managed to add, er... a "half-baked" gpu support.

-EDIT Comes out I'm (obviously) dumb and decided to sudo apt dist-upgrade my way out of this, and... welp, it worked. Currently typing all this waste of time on my (now recently updated to rolling release) opi zero 3 and everything feels much smoother and I can (almost) watch 4k videos, despise this little fella having (only) 1 GiB of ram. Eh... so consider this as a "Debian the superior distro indirect propaganda post".

tl;dr: Welp, I love Debian now.

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[–] mvirts 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome!! Solving your own problems is the best!

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

another resource to keep an eye on – InstallingDebianOn – stumbled across it after watching a couple videos with Debian on RISC-V SBCs