Complex sentence: However most other FOSS Unix-like distributions, such as Debian, RedHat and NetBSD, applied patches to the Makefile in order to compile it to a shared-object and generally include that as part of their base system.
Split into simpler sentences: However most other FOSS Unix-like distributions, such as Debian, RedHat and NetBSD, applied patches to the Makefile in order to compile it to a shared-object. And generally include that as part of their base system.