The oft-seen, in this context, word 'distro' is not in my lexicon nor in
my Australian Oxford. What does it mean?
Geoffrey Combes
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Taken from the word distribution, I think point 3 and 4 are the right
definition;
dis⋅tri⋅bu⋅tion
–noun
1. an act or instance of distributing.
2. the state or manner of being distributed.
3. arrangement; classification.
4. something that is distributed.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Geoffrey w
I believe it's short for 'distribution'. When people are talking about their
distro (or creating a new distro) they are talking about their version of
Linux (or creating a new version of Linux).
There are many variants of Linux all aimed at a different target audience
with different needs.
For ex
Try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distro
Mike Ritter
> Subject: Distro?
> From: gcomb...@bigpond.com
> To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:18:19 +1000
>
> The oft-seen, in this context, word 'distro' is not in my lexicon nor in
> my Australian Oxford. What does it me
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
fo
2009/12/9 David Fawcett :
<...>
> For example: Ubuntu is aimed a new users and is designed to be as simple to
> use as we can make it. Open Solaris (also free) is aimed at businesses and
> includes a lot of built in networking functions (ZFS for example) that could
> be very useful for businesses.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Joel W Shea wrote:
>
> ZFS is a combined filesystem and logical volume manager. [0]
>
> [0] - http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/zfs.jsp
>
>
Thanks for that Joel.
I may have been unclear but I was actually referring to how ZFS works over
networks.
- Dave
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