OpenSUSE update (also, just what is a distribution?)
I figured I’d take this opportunity, though, to run through installation of OpenSUSE, especially since its installation is similar to many other distributions. As with some of the other articles I’m posting this summer, I’m going to take a fairly non-technical approach, so feel free to skip ahead if I’m moving too slow.
I’m also going to limit this post to examining the various distributions available through OpenSUSE and a discussion of Linux distribution models. The next post (check back tonight) will go over the specifics of installing two of the openSUSE distributions.
So what is a distribution, also known as a distro, for those of us who just can’t bring ourselves to utter the extra 2 syllables? It’s a particular packaging of the Linux operating system and usually includes a specific look and feel, as well as whatever software the vendor chooses to include. Such software is often the desktop environment (see Your mom Kubuntus for an explanation of desktop environments), OpenOffice, and all of the drivers necessary to get your system up and running.
Most often, distributions are simply CD or DVD images. If you download the image, then you can use a variety of free software to burn the image onto a blank CD or DVD, assuming you have a CD or DVD writer.
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