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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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[–] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Technicly yes but it'd be hard and would probably break a lot of stuff. If you need a diffrent package manager its better to just install a distro that comes with it.

[–] Tireseas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, wipe your current distro and install another.

[–] user@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, technically ya could. Given some effort you could entirely replace it, but there's usually no point. Take NixOS' package manager as an example. You can drop it into any dsitro and use their repos, but anything you can find there you'd usually be able to find in your native repos.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

nixpkgs in my experience has more packages than most other distributions. For example they ship a ton of OBS plugins

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Yes it probably is but there is really no sense in replacing all the packages