youronlyone,
@youronlyone@c.im avatar

Anyone still remembers the definition or usage of the "flavor" in #Linux?

What I can remember:

  • Distro: .deb (Debian); .rpm (RHeL); etc.
  • Flavor: Ubuntu; Kubuntu; Lubuntu; OpenSuSe; etc.
  • DE: Gnome; KDE; LDE; etc.

I think there's another one but I can't recall.

Today, no one is using "flavor". And "distro" changed in usage to "project name" (like Ubuntu, Mint, Peppermint, and so on).

Or, I'm misremembering things?

#FLOSS #FOSS #GNU #LibreSoftware #OpenSource #FreeCulture

kbal,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

"Flavour" was always just a fragment of hacker slang which might just as well be applied to different editions of Microsoft Windows, different trim levels of Honda Civic, or whatever. It was more common in reference to linux distros when it was mostly only hackers who ran linux. There's an entry for "flavor" in the jargon file.

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