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What's in a distro?
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:55 am
by Elliott
Reasonably inexperienced Linux user here. I'm interested in identifying the distinct components that go into a typical distro and the rough hierarchy they form. Things like the kernel, the bare essential terminal programs, X server, window managers, desktop environments etc.
Anyone care to give me a brief runthrough? Would be much appreciated!
Re: What's in a distro?
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:19 am
by wayne128
Elliott wrote:Reasonably inexperienced Linux user here. I'm interested in identifying the distinct components that go into a typical distro and the rough hierarchy they form. Things like the kernel, the bare essential terminal programs, X server, window managers, desktop environments etc.
Anyone care to give me a brief runthrough? Would be much appreciated!
The easier to do is to check distrowatch
for example, take a look at this table on ubuntu
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
version, feature, packages, etc are tabulated, it is easy to know kernel, xorg, firefox, grub, etc, etc