Re: New releases query



On 03/31/08 11:52, ray wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:09:54 +0530, Artnut wrote:

<snip>

BTW - I understand Linux distributions, I don't understand Linux 'flavors'.

'flavors' is a term that has been around for a couple of decades that
was used to describe the different Unix distributions. Applying the
same term to Linux is a natural progression of the language. It's not
a difficult concept to grasp.
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