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What is a Distribution?
While Windows and MacOS have a single distributor, GNU/Linux can be built from scratch, and is available from various vendors.
Distribution =
- GNU/Linux operating system itself,
- many software,
= a set of packages (software components) including an installation and update system.
There are many distributions, suited fo various uses.
- List of GNU/Linux distributions:
- Linux From Scratch - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ - http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lfs/html/