What are the actual differences between Linux distros, besides desktop environments? Do they just have different package managers and default packages?
What are the actual differences between Linux distros, besides desktop environments...
Thomas Davis
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Charles Bailey
Depends. Some have different package managers. Some have different shells, desktop environments, window managers etc. Some have different init systems, like systemd, sys vinit, etc.
They all have one thing in common, which is kernel, although many distros have their own version of t he kernel with distro specific patches.
One thing to note about different distributions is the release cycle. Some distributions like Debian have long cycles where current stable is supported for a couple of years while they keep preparing the next stable release in testing and unstable branches. THen there are rolling releases like Arch and Ubuntu which keep getting the newest packages while they're ready to be distributed. Usually the tradeoff between different cycles comes down to stability vs software features, but of course that is oversimplification.
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Dylan Bennett
The difference between Ubuntu and Debian is that Ubuntu is unstable trash. Debian is not.
Jaxon Cruz
> Do they just have different package managers and default packages?
That, and the packages themselves may have different choices underlying.
Like one distro may wants everything installed to run as a docker container automatically and the other wants to run as little as possible using sysinit if anything is regularly launched at all.
John Nelson
okay sir
Ayden Collins
can't we install an other package manages on a disto. Like install aptitude on geento ? And why not.
Lincoln Rivera
You could, but it'd be mess. These explain it quite neatly.
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Michael Morales
initramfs but no one Sup Forums cares everything else is interchangeable and can be made to work together. But at more casually glance the difference would be defaults.
Zachary Ramirez
where can I learn linux?
Cooper Wright
You don't, cuz it's the equivalent of getting DPd by stallman and tolvadoodle
Charles Morgan
There are usually programs that handle ayy lmao packages from other distros. For example, Debian has alien to convert and install rpms.
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Hudson Gomez
ubuntu is the only distro that hasn't fucked up on me since i became a windows refugee in 2010
Elijah Smith
Can I theoretically have say, Debian, then without any external tools strip away the Debian components and install Ubuntu ones so that it'd be indistinguishable from Ubuntu
Using the command line and sudo for instance.
Matthew Torres
gnu/linux* distros
Owen Diaz
get your nose out of stallman's fat, hairy asshole
Matthew Gonzalez
This image is retarded it's just a bunch of logos slapped in there of distros some of which aren't and fucking bsd.
Noah Lewis
the only differences are basically:
installation process
defaults
package manager
community / wiki
Daniel Mitchell
Ubuntu is not rolling release though
Lincoln Carter
what's the benefit to use and learn gentoo?
Is it only a meme?
Joshua Edwards
no benefit
yes
Jaxson Sanders
The back-end is different, different package managers, different "feel", some of features are way different, some of them aren't noticeable on some distributions. For example, CentOS doesn't have iptables as a default firewall, but Ubuntu has.