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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have to keep updating it fairly often, otherwise things slip through the cracks. Most recently on a machine that hadn't been updated in about a year it wasn't able to install anything because it couldn't update its GPG keyring anymore. I find the solution to be pacman-keys --refresh-keys or something like that. Why they can't do that as part of one of the updates, I don't know.

There's also small things that crop up during normal installs but that's to be expected on any distro due to bugs in various packages.