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Red Hat

How come Red Hat is not here but Fedora is here? I would add some of th info, but I can't enter the tech info so I'm not spoiling other people's good work...

It's just a list - most of the "tech info" here is propagandist (--------) that should be replaced by hard facts with Comparison of Linux distributions anyways. Therefore, just add it yourself. ¦ Reisio 09:44, 2005 August 18 (UTC)

It's mentioned there. Look above commercial distributions. Jaalto 2005-11-24

(REDHAT is pay only, non-GNU, I would dare to say they are no longer a Linux Distro as a (wiki) dictionary defines it.)

Discontinued, now for sale

monomaxos.com was formerly a porn site, now for sale. This Ubuntu flavour is discontinued. Please remove link. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.61.62.243 (talk • contribs) 22 feb 2020 02:00 (UTC)

is linux monolithic ?

linux is not monolithic it's modular it was one of the first popular modular kernels; which can be micro if the user desires. mach uses different file structs to talk to its parts and is written by different people - is it definitely different but not by much if talking about modularity alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.207.23 (talk • contribs) 4 apr 2016 14:43 (UTC)

Azure Linux

Would Azure Linux go in the "Other" table? Azure Linux is used as the base container operating system for Microsoft Azure services. Azure Linux is open-source and free. Catrachos (talk) 15:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updating the Distro Timeline

The timeline is old and should be updated. However, I have updated the image on the French Wikipedia which has its own file, and now the English Wikipedia doesn't let me update the file to the same file. So, what do we do?

Merge with the French image ? I started a discussion here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg#Merging_with_File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
Delete the French image and use this image on the French Wikipedia ?

Any help on doing one of the two things here is appreciated, as I am pretty much a newbie to image management on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. HGStyleOfficiel (talk) 10:36, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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-Where is the Chinese backed distribution? <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Ceros|Ceros]] ([[User talk:Ceros|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ceros|contribs]]) 29 okt 2006 04:48‎ (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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 * It's mentioned there. Look above commercial distributions.  [[User:Jaalto|Jaalto]] 2005-11-24
+(REDHAT is pay only, non-GNU, I would dare to say they are no longer a Linux Distro as a (wiki) dictionary defines it.)
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 linux is not monolithic it's modular it was one of the first popular modular kernels; which can be micro if the user desires.  mach uses different file structs to talk to its parts and is written by different people - is it definitely different but not by much if talking about modularity alone. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:72.219.207.23|72.219.207.23]] ([[User talk:72.219.207.23#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/72.219.207.23|contribs]]) 4 apr 2016 14:43 (UTC)</small>
+== Azure Linux ==
-== Pending changes to the master timeline ==
+Would Azure Linux go in the "Other" table? Azure Linux is used as the base container operating system for Microsoft Azure services. Azure Linux is open-source and free. [[User:Catrachos|Catrachos]] ([[User talk:Catrachos|talk]]) 15:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
+== Updating the Distro Timeline ==
+The timeline is old and should be updated. However, I have updated the image on the French Wikipedia which has its own file, and now the English Wikipedia doesn't let me update the file to the same file. So, what do we do?
+# Merge with the French image ? I started a discussion here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg#Merging_with_File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
-[[Asahi Linux]] is absent from the master timeline and [[Pardus (operating system)|Pardus]] was changed from being Gentoo-based to being Debian-based in 2013. -- [[Special:Contributions/173.20.216.139|173.20.216.139]] ([[User talk:173.20.216.139|talk]]) 13:57, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
+# Delete the French image and use this image on the French Wikipedia ?
+Any help on doing one of the two things here is appreciated, as I am pretty much a newbie to image management on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. [[User:HGStyleOfficiel|HGStyleOfficiel]] ([[User talk:HGStyleOfficiel|talk]]) 10:36, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
-:[[Red Star OS]], [[Rocky Linux]] and [[AlmaLinux]] are also absent from the master timeline, and [[CentOS]] was discontinued in late 2021. [[Special:Contributions/173.20.216.139|173.20.216.139]] ([[User talk:173.20.216.139|talk]]) 00:57, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
-::[[sourceforge:projects/rebeccablackos/|RebeccaBlackOS]] and [[CBL-Mariner]] are also absent from the master timeline. [[Special:Contributions/173.20.216.139|173.20.216.139]] ([[User talk:173.20.216.139|talk]]) 01:19, 12 June 2022 (UTC)