[Cialug] Distro choice

Barry Von Ahsen barry at vonahsen.com
Fri Jan 30 09:11:08 CST 2009


Todd Walton wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
>>>> You can ask 100 Linux "experts" which distro they think you should run,
>>>> and you might end up with 100 answers.
>>> One would hope.
>> I'd hope the reverse.
> 
> It was a joke.  If you didn't get 100 answers back, then somebody
> hadn't eaten his Tux-themed Wheaties that morning and was being grumpy
> and recalcitrant.

I had to check - distrowatch does show 100 distros, which isn't /too/ 
surprising, I'm sure there are lots more.  although, it does split out 
what are essentially the same thing (ie. ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu)

the top ten (based on page hits for 6 months):
1  	Ubuntu
2 	openSUSE
3 	Mint
4 	Fedora
5 	Debian
6 	Mandriva
7 	PCLinuxOS
8 	CentOS
9 	Sabayon
10 	Puppy

-barry



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