Which Desktop Distro Will Die First?

Over at NewsForge, Roblimo asks the musical question of which of the several recently released "desktop oriented" Linux distributions won't survive the coming year. It's nice to see user-centric distributions at all, but it really is a niche market for now. Apropos that, psykocrime writes "The fine folks at UnitedLinux have issued a Press Release announcing UnitedLinux 1.0. Should be interesting to see whether this sinks or swims, considering the general ambivalence (at best) or even outright hostility (at worst) that most of the talk about United Linux has met, from the Linux community. Questions about GPL compliance, per-set licensing terms, etc... is this the future or Linux or just another albatross?" And J. J. Ramsey writes "BeyondUnreal reviews not only Xandros Desktop's installation, but also shows what this distro's $99 price tag actually gets you. Read more here. LinuxPlanet also has an in-depth review of its own."

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Re:It's like porn sites.... there are enough alrea

[Rick the Red]

For a pretty Linux desktop experience there's Debian... for the Linux newbies there's... Gentoo.

Two people think this is "Insightful"? "Interesting" maybe, but "Insightful"?

Re:It's like porn sites.... there are enough alrea

[tunah]

Six moderations... not one is "-1 Troll".

Draw your own conclusions about the crack the moderators are smoking.

Re:It's like porn sites.... there are enough alrea

[Iguanaphobic]

Mandatory IQ testing for moderators, pass it on....

*applause*

[Tokerat]

You threw the moderators a fast one. Congrats!

Slackware is for newbies like jock itch is for fun.