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Free software projects, although developed in a [[Collaboration|collaborative]] fashion, are often produced independently of each other. The fact that the software licenses explicitly permit redistribution, however, provides a basis for larger scale projects that collect the software produced by stand-alone projects and make it available all at once in the form of a [[Linux distribution]].

A [[Linux distribution]], commonly called a "distro", is a project that manages a remote collection of system software and application software packages available for download and installation through a network connection. This allows the user to adapt the operating system to his/her specific needs. Distributions are maintained by individuals, loose-knit teams, volunteer organizations, and commercial entities. A distribution canis beresponsible installedfor usingthe adefault CDconfiguration thatof containsthe distribution-specificinstalled softwareLinux forkernel, initialgeneral system installationsecurity, and configurationmore generally integration of the different software packages into a coherent whole. ADistributions typically use a [[package manager]] such as [[Synaptic Package Manager|Synaptic]] or [[YAST]] allowsto later packageinstall, upgradesremove and installations.update A distribution is responsible for the default configurationall of the installed Linux kernel, generala system security, and more generally integration of the different's software packagesfrom intoone acentral coherent whole___location.

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