It's a "distribution" of software. People taking care to make a number of programs works together well enough on top of the kernel in order for you to use your

It's a "distribution" of software. People taking care to make a number of programs works together well enough on top of the kernel in order for you to use your hardware. But the build scripts for one works well enough if you're trying to use a less common distro (I shamelessly copied from Debian and Arch for a few software on Alpine).