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04-09-2005, 05:28 PM
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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Berlinsville
Distribution: Slackware/Fedora
Posts: 103
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What makes a distro?
What do you think makes a distro? What should and shouldn't you count when judging a Linux distro? Just another one of those opinion threads...
-Jim
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04-09-2005, 06:29 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Honestly? What it comes with by default and how well the installer works in detecting your hardware, configuring it... etc.
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04-10-2005, 04:19 AM
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#3
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Egypt
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 1,528
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1) Hardware detection
2) Package manager
3) Installed packages
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04-10-2005, 10:19 PM
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#4
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Following the white rabbit
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
Posts: 2,300
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1. Stability
2. Speed
3. Actively being developed
4. Flexible install that let's me choose what I do and don't want installed.
5. The cool penguin.
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