The simplest manual distribution system uses a sliding metal platform under the pickup channel.

Many distributions use one of Debian's branches as a base.

The following examples will further clarify which distribution to use in different situations.

Gentoo-based distributions also use the ebuild system from the same Portage tree.

Selling and distribution of market goods used the sea and major rivers.

Both distributions use the same software repositories.

Some rolling distributions take snapshots of the distribution at regular time intervals and use version numbers to label these.

The release on the author's website is now older than the releases some distributions are using.

This distribution uses Gala as its window manager, which is based on Mutter.

However, for N much larger than n, the binomial distribution is a good approximation, and widely used.