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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 in your opinion the best package manager? (lemmy.ml)

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I have been using linux for about 2 years now and I have enjoyed every second of it. What in your opinion is the best package manager the linux community has ever offered to us? dpkg, apt, yum, pacman, xbps, zypp, nix, guix, portage, 0install and other tons of them that are out there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Pacman is great. It may not be the best package manager out there (I haven't tried them all), but it's simple, fast, and, most importantly, trivial to create packages for (which is the reason the AUR exists, and why it's so good).