GNU/Linux is often viewed as a single operating system, but it is actually a collection of interchangeable components working together. To truly understand how a GNU/Linux system operates, it is best to explore it from the moment you press the power button to the second you open your web browser. This series breaks down the core software components of your computer, it details the available options, customizations, and tweaks.
Guix is an advanced, purely functional package manager and complete Linux distribution. Traditional package managers (like APT or Pacman) install packages globally to all available users, Guix allows installing packages globally or local to a system user. Guix also follows a different approach in managing packages and dependencies which allows installing different versions of each package and eliminates dependency conflicts.
Traditional text editors (like Vim, Nano, or VSCode) are designed to edit text files. They provide a fixed set of features and extensions that allow you to write code or modify configuration files efficiently.
Emacs is an advanced computing environment that happens to ship with a text editor. it uses a single unified programming language (Emacs Lisp) to declare and manage everything in the system, from basic cursor movements to entire user interfaces like email clients, file managers, and task organizers.
Wayland is a modern, secure display server protocol for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It is a replacement for the older X11 system and it manages how applications render graphics and windows to your screen.
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Wayland is a modern, secure display server protocol for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It is a replacement for the older X11 system and it manages how applications render graphics and windows to your screen. River is probably the only Wayland non-monolithic compositor out there. Popular compositors like Sway or Hyprland tightly integrate the window manager and the compositor into a single executable, River on the other hand follows a modular philosophy.
