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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>distribution</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="Dissociated-Press.html" title="Dissociated Press"/><link rel="next" href="distro.html" title="distro"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">distribution</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Dissociated-Press.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="distro.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="distribution"/><dt xmlns="" id="distribution"><b>distribution</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A software source tree packaged for distribution; but see
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<a href="../K/kit.html"><i class="glossterm">kit</i></a>. Since about 1996 unqualified use of this term
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often implies ‘<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> distribution’. The
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short form <a href="distro.html"><i class="glossterm">distro</i></a> is often used for this sense.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups
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(but not <a href="../B/BBS.html"><i class="glossterm">BBS</i></a> <a href="../F/fora.html"><i class="glossterm">fora</i></a>); any
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topic-oriented message channel with multiple recipients. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. An information-space domain (usually loosely correlated with
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geography) to which propagation of a Usenet message is restricted; a
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much-underutilized feature.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Dissociated-Press.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="distro.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Dissociated Press </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> distro</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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