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Operating system based on the Linux kernel
A Linux distribution, often abbreviated as distro, is an operating system that includes the Linux kernel for its kernel functions. Although the term does not imply product distribution per se, a distro, if distributed on its own, is often obtained via a website intended specifically for the purpose. Distros have been designed for a wide variety of systems ranging from personal computers to servers and from embedded devices to supercomputers. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Linux distributionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Vulnerability management in Linux distributionsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Beowulf cluster computing with WindowsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Empirical Tests of Zipf’s Law Mechanism in Open Source Linux DistributionCited 80 times
- Go sideways: List of live CDsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: GNU variantsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Empirical Tests of Zipf’s Law Mechanism in Open Source Linux Distribution
NixOS: A purely functional Linux distribution
Lin4Neuro: a customized Linux distribution ready for neuroimaging analysis
PhyLIS: A Simple GNU/Linux Distribution for Phylogenetics and Phyloinformatics
LXtoo: an integrated live Linux distribution for the bioinformatics community
Building XenoBuntu Linux Distribution for Teaching and Prototyping Real-Time Operating Systems
BioconductorBuntu: a Linux distribution that implements a web-based DNA microarray analysis server
Performance assessment of Linux operating system employing copula distribution approach
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Beowulf cluster computing with WindowsThomas Lawrence Sterling, Thomas Sterling · 2001
Transformation-based reactive systems developmentInternational AMAST Workshop on Real-Time Systems and Concurrent and Distributed Software (4th 1997 Mallorca, Spain) · 1997
Linux Cluster ArchitectureAlex Vrenios · 2002
Beowulf cluster computing with LinuxThomas Lawrence Sterling · 2002
Linux Enterprise ClusterKarl Kopper · 2005- 📕High Performance Linux Clusters with Oscar, Rocks, Openmosix, and MpiJoseph D. Sloan · 2004
Cluster ComputingHeiko Bauke, Stephan Mertens · 2005
DebianRaphaël Hertzog · 2005
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