distro (was Re: Gnome/KDE Uninstall)

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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Old-Topics: Gnome/KDE Uninstall
Subject: distro (was Re: Gnome/KDE Uninstall)
On Wed, 14 May 2003, Rob Wultsch wrote:

> Excuse the stupid question but is there a distro that is simply called
> linux?


No.

A "distro" stands for "distribution". It is made up of Linux the kernel
and other useful utilities and software that make a usable open source
Unix-type operating system.

In the BSD world, they are called flavours (flavors). (Even though, BSD
stands for Berkeley Software Distributions.)

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

p.s. I have been working on a new distro since October. :)