The article describes what a distribution is, what they are, what they can be called and what not, and where this concept comes from.
What it is?
The concept of "distribution" came into our life relatively recently, around the time of the growing popularity of free operating systems of the Linux family. The system distributions were then mainly distributed on CD discs, since the speed of Internet access did not allow downloading ISO images from the Web. Over time, the name spread to other products. Now almost everywhere you can hear the word "distribution". What it is? This is what we will try to understand in this material.
Starting to use the word "distribution"
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