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Differences between stal/IX and regular Linux


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stal/IX uses musl internally and allows userland software to be built with an arbitrary libc of choice. All files on the system are owned by user IX, and all package management is performed on its behalf. It is based on the xdg-open-dispatch script, and changes in upstream to redirect their mechanisms to xdg-open, such as a patch for the Epiphany web browser.

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