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baa baa baaa ! you all seem to flock with the top 10-20 distros. do you guys ever actually visit other distro homepages and read about them? After trying three of the top ten distros and only liking one i did some reading and move on down the ranking scale. the distro i use now i like alot i would not think of putting any other linux on my pcs.

 

/bait :P

 

There is a reason why certain distros are in the top 20. Also, keep in mind that there are only 20 seats in the top 20 chart. Not every distro can be in the top 20. It's unfortunate that there are so many distros, if you ask me. Choice is good, but I mean... WHY should there be so many distros? Doesn't make sense, really. I mean, if you really think about it. All these people combined would make one or two *REALLY* kick ass distros, and who knows where Linux would be today? But no, everything in the Linux world is like a frickin' game of Jenga...

 

I could give you a list of reasons why I use Debian over anything else, but you wouldn't care, and I don't care why I shouldn't use Debian.

 

Here's the distros I've tried:

 

Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, OpenLinux 2.4

Corel Linux 1.?

Debian 2.2r5, 3.0, Sid

Dragon Linux ?

EvilEntity Linux 0.2.4f

Gentoo 1.0rc6, 1.1a, 1.4.1 LiveCD UT2K3, 1.4rc4

Knoppix 3.1

Libranet 2.0.1, 2.7

LOAF ?

LRs - Linux 0.2.6

Lycoris Desktop/LX Build 44

Mandrake 7.0, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 8.1 ProSuite Server CD, 8.2beta1, 8.2, Cooker ISOs (pre-9.0 beta 1), 9.0 beta 1, 9.0 RC3, 9.0, 9.1

MaxOS ?

Peanut Linux 9.2

Phat Linux 3.3

Red Hat 6.1, 7.2, 7.3

Slackware 7.1, 8.0, 8.1

Sorcerer ?

Storm Linux 2000

SuSE 6.3 Evaluation Version, 7.3 Live Eval, 8.0 Live Eval

WinLinux 2000, 2001

 

And other OSes:

 

BeOS 5 Pro, 5 Personal

FreeBSD 3.?, 4.5

QNX ?, RTOS 6

Windows 1.03, 2.01, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95B, 95C, 98, 98 SE, NT 4, 2K Pro, 2K Server, 2K Adv. server, ME, XP

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Wow I aint even going to compete with dOlsen...

Instead I'll address the issue of why are there so many distro's.

 

Thats Linux, everyone can do it so lots of people do. Why does a dog lick it balls? Becuase it can!

So its possible to do it, even feasible with pateience and hard work and the rewards in knowledge are tremendous.

They learn a lot and generally wanna show other people and share.

 

The problem here is the victims of theoir own sucess. Somewhere commercialisation takes over once you get in the top ten. Some start out that way like Lindows/Lycoris/Corel-Xandros and other are just victims of sucess.

 

However every new one brings new features and ideas. Portage for instance with Gentoo. Features wise its a leapfrog game. Latest Kernel means better device support etc. This keeps pushing Linux forward in general so in effect everyone is working together for a kickass operating system.

 

My first distro (if you could call it that by todays standards) was Slackware 2.0. If you compare that to a modern (Mdk 9+, RH 9+, Xandros, just tkae your pick) its unbeleiveable. Compare Windows 3.11 to XP and the differences really aren't that big. (if you really consider what you can and can't do) I still have a Win98 VMWARE session but thats it.

 

More importantly compare Word XP to Word 2.0 and its hard to actually see many genuinely useful aditions. Those that are (like html editing) are so contaminated they are next to useless. Now compare OO or pick your fav office suite and compare that to what was aroun in 92-93 for linux and you'll see how far and fast its developed.

 

I think the distro competition has in many ways accelerated Linux into something that has grown so fast its unbelievable.

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