With that recent post about chrome os not counting as a distro of linux. It does bring a good question, what is a distro of linux?

If Linux is just a kernel then android and chrome os are Linux. Bur no really considers android a distro of linux. So linux is more then a kernel.

KDE say that neon is not a distro but doesn’t really why neon is not but kubuntu is.

  • @superminerJG
    6•1 year ago

    The way I see it, a Linux distribution:

    • Boots the Linux kernel
    • Has open-source software at its core
    • Provides an “easy bootstrap” system.
    • Does not outright prevent modification of system software. (This excludes ChromeOS/Android)
      • This does not exclude immutable distros, as system software can still be modded as root).
    • @joel_feilaOP
      2•1 year ago

      I do like this answer since it gets to why chrome/android is excluded.