Things have improved since those days. Firstly, between 2 - 5 new distributions are added to DistroWatch every week, so it is getting increasingly hard for any of them to get to the top 100, never mind to the top 10. Secondly, the number of visitors on DistroWatch has trippled since "Yoper times" (now at over 20,000 visits per day) and it's becoming harder for one person to manipulate the page hit ranking. And thirdly, PCLinuxOS is created by somebody who is well-known in the Mandrake user community and who has a record of providing reliable enhancements for vanilla Mandrake releases.
Yes, the DistroWatch ranking is nothing but a light-hearted popularity contest created for fun (and to laugh at those who take it seriously). In contrast, PCLinuxOS is a serious and promising distro worth watching, especially if you are a Mandrake fan.
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distrowatch doesn't do what this guy's trying to do, which is to produce a brief, easy to read, and easy to understand summary of the biggest distros.
It does: http://distrowatch.com/major
Connectiva is in the top 100 - it's at number 47 at the moment. You can find more page hit stats over various time spans here.
The character ("li" in Chinese) means "power" or "strength" (in both physical and spiritual senses of the word).
Things have improved since those days. Firstly, between 2 - 5 new distributions are added to DistroWatch every week, so it is getting increasingly hard for any of them to get to the top 100, never mind to the top 10. Secondly, the number of visitors on DistroWatch has trippled since "Yoper times" (now at over 20,000 visits per day) and it's becoming harder for one person to manipulate the page hit ranking. And thirdly, PCLinuxOS is created by somebody who is well-known in the Mandrake user community and who has a record of providing reliable enhancements for vanilla Mandrake releases.
Yes, the DistroWatch ranking is nothing but a light-hearted popularity contest created for fun (and to laugh at those who take it seriously). In contrast, PCLinuxOS is a serious and promising distro worth watching, especially if you are a Mandrake fan.
Down due to DNS troubles, should be back in a day or two. In the meantime you can find it at http://66.111.55.60.