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Tails, Devuan, Mobian, Kali, Debianissimo, Armbian, Proxmox, Qubes, Raspbian and finally...Debian
Arch is also a valid answer, btw.
βName 3 package managersβ
Apt Rpm Pacman
Rpm is really more analogous to dpkg. Does the local work, doesn't talk to repositories.
Apt to...not yum anymore. checks Dnf.
I'm not sure which one would properly call a "package manager", the apt/dnf role or the rpm/dpkg role.
rpm/dpkg is the package format. apt/dnf/zypper is the system that downloads, unarchives, and moves files into place.
rpm and dpkg are also programs that are used for a number of local operations.
True. There's... a lot to unpack with this.
Package Management is weird.
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dnf yay snap flatpak emerge... nix?
Snap is more of a cancer then package manager
I felt the same way, but have been finding Ubuntu Core to be a nifty OS for running as a VM.
zypper
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There is only 1 distro. And it's Hannah Montana!
Bazzite, Debian, Linux Mint...Arch.... Ubuntu....
That's five I could think of off top of my head.
I got 50% right, okay!
You've got two so far.
Can you name 10 base/independent distros?
Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Arch, GuixSD, NixOS, Slack, Gentoo, LFS, and I want to say... Knoppix?
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Uh, I guess he was thinking in terms of distros using .DEB packages via APT. Ubuntu, Kali, Debian, and so many alone use DEB packages.