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A Mind Map of Linux Distributions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pics-for-your-cube dept.

Howard writes "All about Linux has posted a Mind Map of GNU/Linux distributions. This map of GNU/Linux hopes to throw light on the current GNU/Linux distributions and their relationships with each other. Though the map doesn't show the historically significant but now redundant distros like SLS, Yggdrasil and the erstwhile Red Hat, it shows many of the more prominent GNU/Linux distributions."

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  1. Re:Nice diagram! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OT. i wish there was a similar graph for processor families. All I hear is prescot this, opteron that, athlon another, but no idea how they relate.

  2. It's not a mind map, but by m4c+north · · Score: 2, Interesting
    a map for your mind. It helps you see the historical/genealogical relationships between distros, but doesn't map the minds of the users/developers of those distros.

    I was expecting something more along the lines of the philosophical leanings of the mapped distros, like which are more community-based and which are more corporate; which are incredibly zealous and which are more diplomatic. You could pick up to three different spectra and map them before you ran out of easy-to-visualize dimensions.

    For example, I'd like to see:

    • Cathedral [-----] Bazaar (leadership style)
    • Boss [-----] Best Friend (openness to questions or new ideas)
    • Jihadist [------] Zen Monk (open source philosophy)

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  3. Yggdrasil was great. by torpor · · Score: 2, Interesting


    One of the first easy-to-use and easy-to-demo Linux distro's around, I got a whole data center moved to 486/Pentium hardware on the strength of the "rootfs on CD" bootsys that Yggdrasil was shipping, before RedHat was anything more than an SLS-wannabe, and I have to say that I really can't fathom why it wasn't considered significant enough to include on this map ..

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  4. Mind Mapping Software by jallen02 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That Mind Map appears to have been made with FreeMind. An excellent, open source, mind mapping solution. I advise folks to try it out.

    FreeMind

    Jeremy

  5. Re:Those who ignore history are doomed to .... by swv3752 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    However, SuSE was one of the founders of the RPM spec. Caldera was also involved. Caldera doesn't really matter anymore since the whole SCO fiasco, and the only other Caldera derived distro was Lycoris.

    And TurboLinux was not designed from the ground up, it was based off of Red Hat. Mandrake and Conectiva (which became Mandriva) are RH derived. Gentoo is conceptually related to LFS. Vector is designed to be a Small Linux, and Slax is derived from Slackware. Linspire and Xandros are siblings being both derived from CorelOS, itself a Debian derivative. I am pretty sure Julex and Puppy are Slackware derived.

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