Distro?

[Dave Hall]

Hi Geoffrey,

It is a shortened version of distribution.  As Linux is just a kernel, a
distro is when someone assembles the kernel with a collection of
applications and tools, such a the GNU utilities which are commonly used
by all distros, X for the GUI, GNOME for a desktop environment, firefox
for a web browser, OpenOffice.org for word processing, presentations etc
and so on.

There is loads more info on wikipedia too -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

Cheers

Dave

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:18 +1000, Geoffrey wrote:
> The oft-seen, in this context, word 'distro' is not in my lexicon nor in
> my Australian Oxford. What does it mean?
> Geoffrey Combes
> 
>