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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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Ubuntu is my daily driver but I'm thinking of setting this up on my never used Raspberry PI -- anyone using it? How tough do you think it will be as a first project? (www.maketecheasier.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the alternative to doing this? Is it safer to read the script first and then execute it as

sh ./install.sh?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Read the official docs to build from source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Those instructions are from the official docs, and install.sh comes from the source repo. It's an annoying script (it basically runs apt, npm, make, on your behalf...thanks, I can do that myself), but if you're trusting the repo source to begin with, I don't think it's any less secure.