What is source based distro?
Many distros, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora Core, Suse, and ArkLinux, use binary packages for installation. Simply put, a binary package is the pre-compiled program, compiled on another machine and made available for download and installation on to other computers. A source based distro is a distribution which compiles its programs from source code, rather than relying on others to ‘package’ them. Source based distros generally also come with some binary (pre-compiled) packages as well for larger programs like openoffice. can their compile from source, take to you until two days in your own system.