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Re:distro

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 20, 2007 12:50 AM
Linux = operating system
RHE Linux = productized operating system

So a distro is an operating system bundled with the higher-level layers, components, utilities, and applications needed to make it useful and appealing to end users and administrators.

The "Linux is just a kernel, GNU/Linux is the OS" line was a clever line by Stallman that has established currency with lazy journalists. What is RHE Linux then?

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