Re: New releases query

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:06:34 -0400, Douglas O'Neal wrote:

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.

"flavor" to me, would imply something I could appreciate - I could see rpm
as opposed to debian package management as a 'flavor' - I could see the
desktop environment approaching a 'flavor' - but to speak of distributions
as 'flavors' seems nonsensical to me.
.

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