LFS, Gentoo or XYZ distribution. Which one for you?
The term Linux is confusing to many people. They will hear of it, understand that it is an operating system and then, when they look for more information, they are bombarded with so many choices they don't know what to do. For us Linux advocates this is a normal state of affairs and we can wade through the sea of choice as implacably as a flamingo wades through a pond.
Yet those new to the Linux culture do suffer a culture shock, so to speak. In their world windows is windows, MacOS is MacOS. Sure there are different versions of these operating systems yet they still have a unifying label with the version just signifying how recent it is. For example, windows has 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, millenium, 2000, nt, xp, vista and 7 versions yet it is still windows.
Linux on the other hand has Debian, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, PCLinuxOS, Slax, Gentoo, Kubuntu, Arch, SUSE and many hundreds of others. They are not all from one company, they are not all brand named as Linux, even though they are Linux distributions.
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