[NTLUG:Discuss] DistroWatch 10 Most Popular Linux Distros

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:

> 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.
>


> True , but if you are a old Linux user as I the new kid still hasn't proved
> it worth , at least to me !
>
   As someone else stated Ubuntu is to Windowie , and almost all distros
have some kind of support base now .
Sorry to harp on Ubuntu , but to many people are drawn to it (because it is
said to be #1 , and easy to use) and have a bad experience and then give up
on Linux , that is why I point most to PCLinuxOS , like its slogan
"Radically simple" ( I know it is Mandriva spin off) .


> > 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.
>


> Hmmm , SuSE has a creative approach to that now , you can build your own
> SuSE and DL the ISO and off you go .




>
> 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).
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