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The "something that is distributed" is a package manager and package repositories. What makes a distribution is what choices it makes in letting you install sof
by solatic 2y ago
The "something that is distributed" is a package manager and package repositories. What makes a distribution is what choices it makes in letting you install software.
A distroless image doesn't include a package manager. You cannot use anything in the provided distroless image to install software.
- jrm4 2y agoThat doesn't make it not a distro, that makes it a different kind of a distro. I'm not sure if we've had ones that absolutely had no package manager, but we've definitely had TONS for which the intent ISN'T installing extra/different software,e.g. a bunch of the specialized raspberry pi ones.
- solatic 2y agoDo you think Linux From Scratch https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ is a distribution? That project is not a distribution, it helps you build your own distribution. The Linux kernel by itself, although the source and binaries are "distributed" to you (i.e. English-dictionary definition of distribution), is not a distribution.
- jrm4 2y agoThere is no essential difference that makes Linux From Scratch not a distribution. None. Some distros come with a lot of stuff. Some with very little. That it can be used to make another distro has NO BEARING on this. What would you call that thing if it's not a distro? What is that noun?