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I thought the same thing. After some searching I realized that "Open Distro" isn't actually a linux distro after all. This is a non-fork release of Elasticsea
by alexose 8y ago
I thought the same thing. After some searching I realized that "Open Distro" isn't actually a linux distro after all. This is a non-fork release of Elasticsearch with the proprietary parts stripped out.
- sam_lowry_ 8y agoThanks for figuring it out. Shame on the publishers of the OP website for making it deliberately unclear.
- tylersmith 8y agoIn what why did they deliberately make the meaning unclear? The middle of the page says "An Apache 2.0-licensed distribution of Elasticsearch". It's saying in black and white that it's a distribution of Elasticsearch, not of an operating system. In what way is being deliberatly unclear?
- _msw_ 8y agoHi, I work at AWS on compute services, but spent a lot of my life building Linux distros. For those of us with Linux distro building experience, this may be initially confusing. But calling a curated collection of software a "distro" has been used for decades outside of Linux distributions. For example, there are multiple distributions of TeX, like TeX Live, MacTeX, etc. http://www.tug.org/interest.html#free http://www.tug.org/interest.html#free See also the Anaconda Distribution for Python and R: https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ (not to be confused with the Anaconda that I know and love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer) )