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 > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
