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What is a Distro? A distro or Distribution is a particular "flavor" or build of an operating system. Windows 3, Windows 95/98 and Windows XP are examples of Distros. Each distro is a Windows product but each one has different characteristics. Moreover the differences in Linux distros usually fall along the lines of differences between XP home, XP Pro, and NT type differences. Each distro will install very similar and function almost identical to all others but internal file storage might be different as well as file utilization. Most end users won't see this difference however. When installing programs from tarballs or using rpm CPAN apt-get or yum for example will also differ from distro to distro. A RedHat install will not necessarily be able to utilize a Slackware configured application. So what is the fix? Most developers will "roll" or "build" a particular application to suite many distros. If they do not there is always the option to "Make" your own from a source tarball. "LinDUX"? Linux + Windows = Lindows - Windux - Lindux - Whatever sounds good to you! |