The Linux Distribution Game

Ladislav Bodnar writes: "I have installed and used many Linux distributions. The editorial, entitled The Linux Distribution Game is the result of my personal experiences - it aspires to be a gentle introduction to the many distributions out there. The rest of the DistroWatch site provides pure facts; this is the only exception, although I promise to be as unbiased as possible." This page is nearly worth it for the logos alone; the links to obscure and semi-obscure distributions are a nice resource.

Comments

correction:

[Anonymous Coward]

In their page for debian, I noticed that for Debian, they said that the default desktop was "GNOME".

The policy of Debian is NOT to have a default desktop, and GNOME is not favored over KDE (or vice versa).

The default window manager is WindowMaker.

The URL is
http://www.distrowatch.com/debian.htm

Re:Forget distributions

[bconway]

* the ports collection can't be beat by any distro

Actually, it can very easily be beat by many distros. Ports is nice if you're installing a program from scratch and leaving it, but if you update your ports collection, there's no method to update a single package! You need to uninstall every package that depends on the one you're trying to upgrade by hand, then install all of them AGAIN through ports. Until there's a 'make update' that updates a single package (or a package and everything that depends on it) after updating the ports tree, it won't be nearly as flexible as a simple 'rpm -Fvh file.rpm' or the apt-get equivalent.