= Development
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Unikie
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Spectrum is free software, currently under active development.


== Developer Setup

* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/about/[b4]
* https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/introduction.html[Nix package manager]
* https://docs.asciidoctor.org/[AsciiDoc] for writing the documentation


== Mailing Lists

The Spectrum project runs several
https://spectrum-os.org/participating.html#mailing-lists[mailing lists] on
which you can ask your questions or help other people with the questions they
have.  All the Spectrum developers as well as many long time Linux and Spectrum users are on the lists.

For real-time feedback, use
https://spectrum-os.org/participating.html#irc[IRC/Matrix channel].
