Anyone care to give me a brief runthrough? Would be much appreciated!
What's in a distro?
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Elliott
What's in a distro?
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!
Anyone care to give me a brief runthrough? Would be much appreciated!
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wayne128
Re: What's in a distro?
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