= Development
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Jenni Nikko <evgeniia.nikolaenko@unikie.com>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later OR CC-BY-SA-4.0

Spectrum is free software, currently under active development.

== Developer Setup

Before starting, make sure you are familiar with https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/about/[b4] and the https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/introduction.html[Nix package manager].

== Mailing Lists

The Spectrum project runs several https://spectrum-os.org/mailman3/lists/?all-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.
