{"id":31,"date":"2007-11-20T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/getting-started-with-dedicated-servers\/what-does-distro-really-mean\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T02:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:52:30","slug":"what-does-distro-really-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serverpronto.com\/spu\/2007\/11\/what-does-distro-really-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Distro Really Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw an interesting round up of a debate described on Linux.com<\/a> about distros.<\/p>\n

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Distro<\/h1>\n

It seems that there was a general consensus around the fact that the term “distro” refers to a specific flavor of Linux, such as a Red Hat, or Slackware, or Debian, or openSUSE, or Ubuntu. So long as its Linux, this camp believes, it qualifies as a distro.<\/p>\n

Apparently, Shane Geiger, IT director for the National Council on Economic Education<\/a> had a different view. He believes FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and now Solaris (now that it is “free software”) are all distro. What does the term “distro” mean to you? What side of the distro fence are you on? What, for that matter, is your favorite distro and why? We want to know.<\/p>\n

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ServerPronto offers affordable and secure dedicated servers<\/a> and cloud<\/a> hosting service\u00c2\u00a0packages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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