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- noun   Plural form of 
distro . 
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Linux distros ovigia Brasillinux - O Linux do Brasil #distros rjt Returned to the zenwalk linux after a long time to refurbish
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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None of these distros is interchangable with another one.
Microsoft’s Vista Problem, by the Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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SUSE was based on Slackware initially but early on started building its own Kernel and infrastructure from scratch; it is now one of the few 'original' distros, that is, not built upon any other distro like Debian or Red Hat.
LXer Linux News 2009
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Why not use Pidgin which is included in many Linux distros, which is an ad-free replacement for Aim and Yahoo.
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Ubuntu, one of the top Linux "distros," is up to version 9.10, aka "Karmic Koala" - and I'm not making that nickname up.
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Ubuntu, one of the top Linux "distros," is up to version 9.10, aka "Karmic Koala" - and I'm not making that nickname up.
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I compared three so called "distros" of Linux (Suse 9.1 Pro, Fedora Core 2, and Mandrake
OSNews 2009
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Lifehack, you guys need to cover something like this for Linux distros as this an extremely helpful tip.
How To Move Your Home Folder To Another Drive | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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If remember those days … Redhat 5 (the original version 5) was one of my first distros.
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I would love to learn about how to make an Ubuntu application support multiple distros.
 
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