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The Future of distros

The term ‘distribution’ didn’t really become commonplace until 1995. By now we have a fairly concrete (and relatively luxurious) notion that a distro consists of an installer; a set of customised packages compiled from (modified) upstream sources; a kernel (which is just a package); a desktop environment;

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