Timeline for Why is "distro", rather than "distri", short for "distribution" in Linux world?
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| S Jul 17, 2014 at 17:16 | history | suggested | please delete me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
corrected spelling
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 21:31 | comment | added | Christian | He also only wrote the kernel which is as far from a Linux distribution as you can get ;) | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 20:44 | comment | added | user7626 | @tobyink Though that minority is large enough to make Swedish one of the national languages in Finland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland #funfact | |
| S Mar 7, 2014 at 12:03 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited. Applied some formatting.
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| Mar 6, 2014 at 23:16 | comment | added | tobyink | @PhilPerry, Linus is not a native Finnish speaker. He's Finnish, but he's part of the small Swedish-speaking minority. | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | DisplayName | Not really clear @PhilPerry books.google.com/ngrams/… does not point out where but only when the term came into use | |
| Mar 6, 2014 at 14:44 | comment | added | Phil Perry | Did distro originate with Linux? If so, could Torvald's native Finnish (Suomi?) have had some influence on the term? | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | Peter Shor | No. In English,the first and third syllables are strong. | |
| Mar 5, 2014 at 14:20 | history | answered | DisplayName | CC BY-SA 3.0 |