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“One of the things that is very confusing to new Linux
enthusiasts is the ‘distro,’ or distribution. And one of the most
confusing things about distributions, for the beginner, is that
there is no official definition of what a distribution is, exactly:
distributions existed in many forms long before anyone cared.“To venture my own definition, a distribution is a bundling of
the Linux kernel with other software and services. That’s it. In
general, the kernel is the same, so what you are selecting is the
style of installation, the tools you want, and the level of support
that you need to have…”
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