[NTLUG:Discuss] DistroWatch 10 Most Popular Linux Distros

[Chris Cox]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:40 -0500, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> Have been a Distrowatch fan for a long time , in fact several years .AS I
> have said over and over , Ubuntu is over rated , of course coming from a
> Corel Linux user and then Red Hat .

Ubuntu has a "rabid" community though.  I will say that they're often
"wrong" about certain things from technical point of view... but they
are there and their web site is awesome.

> Since I found SuSE on Distrowatch it has been my main stay , have tried just
> about every other Linux under the sun but none compare to SuSE (I keep my
> wife on PCLInuxOS) and DSL for thumb drives . Have even tried BSD and
> Solaris
> with out success , both just would not load on my machines (to new) and
> hardware support was not favorable .

I do like openSUSE, BUT, a lot of their value add (their OWN stuff) has
been abandoned for whatever Red Hat has chosen to do (albeit, a lot of
that is driven by Gnome.. and since Novell owns Ximian... that's
somewhat expected).

I think there's room for another distro that's an openSUSE fork... one
that holds on to the stability and good ideas they had (some of which,
as I said is GONE in 11.x).  One thing I'll say about a lot of the
Desktop developers and other application developers... KISS is not
their forte.

Might be fun to create a distro... (without graphics initially... 
because, as I said, the Gnome and KDE guys, for example, have lost their
marbles in many ways).