[NTLUG:Discuss] DistroWatch 10 Most Popular Linux Distros

[Dennis Myhand]

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

It may have started out as a Mandrake/Mandriva spin-off but it has 
evolved.  It now uses apt for package install/management.  I think there 
are some other areas where it has moved away from rpm and chosen it's 
own path.  I have been working with it off and on and will some more 
later when the school year ends and I don't have those pesky students 
bothering me with their frivolous questions and their silly demands to 
learn how to do something...oh, wait, that's why I'm here!  Peace, 
Dennis in Victoria (Edna High School, Edna, TX.  GO COWBOYS/COWGIRLS!)