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clearkimura edited this page Mar 14, 2015 · 26 revisions

####Preparing users to be knowledgeable: Don't call it 'distro'.

This may be the first concise reading [1] to explain why users shouldn't call their custom Linux system a 'distro', ever since the official guide was released [2]. Either "how to create your own distro" or "how to build your own distribution", is infamously quoted on the Web.

Therefore, users should know when to call 'distro' and otherwise 'remix'.

####Distro

The word 'distro' is synonymous to "Linux distribution"...

####Remix

What isn't 'distro' actually called as 'remix'...


[1] deliberately written by @clearkimura, after googling hours on the Web to look for a proper 'remix' definition that relates to Linux software (whose 'remix' definition for artistic works is similar but not defined in software perspective).

[2] back then, @fluxer had reminded not to promote "own distro" thing.

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