[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“I sat through an interesting debate recently on the Austin
Linux Group mailing list over the meaning of the term ‘distro.’
Some LUG members felt ‘distro’ implies Linux, while others took a
wider view, claiming it could be any one of several possible
platforms, including OpenSolaris.“The question of ‘what is a distro?’ arose after a heated
discussion–do we ever get into other kinds?–over Dell’s selection
of Ubuntu for desktop and laptop preloads…”