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Linux Distribution Round-Up

Posted by michael on from the herding-cats dept.

Patrick Mullen writes: "The Duke of URL has just posted a Distribution Round-Up. The article covers information on many of today's (and yesterday's) popular Linux distributions as well as links to many distribution reviews -- and aims to arm Linux users with the information to choose the distro that is right for them." It's pretty much required that Slashdot publish one of these every few months.

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  1. Vine? by Squeeze+Truck · · Score: 3

    I notice that Vine Linux is conspicuously missing. Vine is probably the most popular Linux Distro in Japan.

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    "Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao

    1. Re:Vine? by teg · · Score: 4

      The Vine people now work for Red Hat - our last release works out of the box with Japanese, if you want it to.

  2. Kondara by BJH · · Score: 3

    The article mentions Kondara MNU/Linux, but contains two errors:

    1) It says that is a GNU project.
    Kondara has never been, and never will be, a GNU project. It is created by a group of volunteers and packaged by a commercial enterprise, Digital Factory. (Some people consider DF to be a bunch of VC losers, but that depends on who you ask.)

    2) It says that Kondara appears dead.
    A new version is currently at beta2, scheduled for release in the next month or two.

    With errors like these, one has to wonder just how well the writer did his research.

  3. Re:Bah! Only weenies use distributions! by mindstrm · · Score: 3

    Right there with you.. though I wish I could say I've only built upon my original SLS system.... there just isn't enough time in the day to do that.
    9600 bps connections using TERM and mosaic-term to surf the web for the first time.
    How retro.

  4. Re:Bah! Only weenies use distributions! by toofast · · Score: 3

    And when you build a house, I suppose you run out to the woods with an axe and cut your own wood. Or perhaps you fabricate your own nails.

    Building a Linux system from scratch is by all means time consuming. If you have time to do it that way, congratulations.

  5. Progeny missing. by Snowfox · · Score: 3

    Progeny isn't in the list. Progeny is a commercial distribution by Ian Murdock, based on the Debian distribution. It has a graphical installer that's even simpler than those of the distributions in the beginner level, and a rapidly evolving set of support options. All of this while maintaining Debian's trump card of apt.

  6. The Linux Distribution List by rgbrenner · · Score: 4

    There's a pretty complete Linux distribution list here.