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this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2024
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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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Packages can break, not the distro. Packages can break at any time because there's thousands of them and nobody can check all of them thoroughly. A rolling distro gets you both the bugs and the fixes faster.
Non-apt and non-rolling will limit your options considerably.
I might be confused. I thought that the distro itself was made up of packages and that's what all updates did: update various packages bundled with the distro (plus any you installed yourself)