Me: "You want to know the difference in real simple terms? Okay. Vista is bad gnews and GNU is good gnews. XP ain't such bad gnews, until you reach the blue screen of death, which ain't good gnews ...

What are the differences between Linux distributions? Linux offers a tremendous amount to any computer user, but the proliferation of distributions can sometimes be confusing to newer folks.

The "What's the difference between UNIX and Linux?" question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT ...