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- neomis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Well, Mac OS X isn't a linux distribution, thats why it isn't on the list
- kitchenni, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24The only reason people know about mac's is because they pour money into marketing, not cause they are inherently better.
- oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22An OK read but didn't learn anything new. Except for this Mephis distro he mentioned. Oh wait, maybe he means Mepis
- armo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19"Most Influential" is not necessarily the best or your favourite. They're in alphabetical order, not some obscure ranking by the author and the 1 you (and I) have a certain bias towards, is in the list.
I think I'd have put knoppix in the list as well, simply for it being the first well known live distro. I don't know what I'd do without live cds the number of times they've saved my ass. - xfTwitch, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I was totally unaware that OSX was a GNU/linux distribution...
- ztirffritz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15While I do like OS X, you might notice that the title of the article is "The 7 Most Influential GNU/Linux Distributions". OS X is not based on Linux. So your comment is more or less, um, stupid.
- neftaly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13No. Jerk.
- wwnexc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Slackware CAN check and resolve dependencies.
- Urusai, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Maybe you should read articles to the end. Ubuntu is the last one on page 3.
- zachninme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I would hardly call this guy an "insider"
- Gryffydd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13This article sounds like somebody spent 20 minutes googling distros and then slapped together an article.
- BGog, on 10/10/2007, -11/+21I coulda pulled that list out of my ass while drunk and napping.
Buried for 'stating the obvious'. - mtekk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9RTFA, Gentoo was the first distro on the second page. The list goes as follows:
1. Debian
2. RHEL/Fedora
3. Gentoo
4. Mandriva
5. Slackware
6. SuSE
7. Ubuntu - Tangaroa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Holy *****, he actually mentioned Yggdrasil.
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -10/+18Finally. An objective assessment. No cattle effect. However, the merits of some other distributions is that they are particularly easy for beginners to pick up (at the expense of digital freedom or assumption about some particular prior knowledge).
- Hydraulix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8He forgot Arch Linux.
- neftaly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Hey, that's the story with OSS - even my dog is an "insider".
( She helped write 'fetch'. Good girl. ) - earlycj5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5FTA- In fact, in openSUSE's version of KDE, YaST2 replaces the Control Center.
It does? Not on any of my computers.
Buried as lame. Too many other inconsistencies and nothing really new here. - neftaly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6If I remember correctly, Mandrake was the first real disto that a computer novice could install and use without any major hassle. I think its inclusion was indeed justified.
- jebaird, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4his picture me me chuckle inside :)
- OmegaNine, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5This guy is a newb, Slackware can check dependencies, and how in the hell did be put Debian over Redhat. Like it not, Redhat helped make Linux what it is today. Half the info in this story is just wrong.
- darkNiGHTS, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Pacman!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacman_(Arch_Linux) - BGog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You are wrong. From apples site: "With its open-source core based on FreeBSD 5.0 and the Mach 3.0 microkernel, Mac OS X is the best Macintosh operating system ever for UNIX users."
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html - BGog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3You have a good point. However mom and grandma don't need or want to know about the most "Influential" distros. They might enjoy an article titled. "7 distros that might be right for you" That, I would not rip on. This article is pretty useless to anyone who knows anything about linux and also not useful for a newbie who might be looking for a distro. But maybe I'm wrong and just in a jackassy mood. :)
- peestandingup, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4C' mon, dude. Thats the problem with the Linux community. They assume everyone speaks in the Linux native tongue. Thats why none of these distros have made it big & succeeded in converting the casuals. And they could be a helluva lot more user friendly too.
If you guys want this stuff to go big, these programmers are gonna have to stop thinking like nerds & more like my mom or grandma. - Chandon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What did PCLinuxOS influence? Sure, it might be a good distro (or not), but I'm not sure what would make it deserve being tagged "influential"...
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I could be called new to Linux, only been using for a year, and I found this thoroughly boring.
- ferrofluid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2ReactOS the upcoming OSS clone of Win2K, getting to be a usable alt to classic win2k windows.
able to use win device drivers, they have a virtual QEMU download that works sweet, plus install versions.
Its not nix but OSS so worthy of comment.
http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS - Chandon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I'm pretty sure Debian makes the list of "top 7 most influential distributions". Maybe not "top 7 most user-friendly distros" or "top 7 distros with the highest profile in the news", but Debian is (and has been) at least as influential as Mandriva or Slackware. What exactly is Slackware supposed to have influenced, anyway? (Not to flame Slackware, but I really never thought of the distro as having had that property at all.)
- MasteRR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I would say Debian is pretty influential. They spawned quite a few other influential distros such as DSL, Ubuntu, and Knoppix. And (unless I am wrong) created apt-get.
And anyone who claims slack isn't influential is crazy. - xspinkickx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I thought that article was well written, I thought they were going to put ubuntu on that list, as first...but was pleasantly surprised to see debian (even though I switched from Debian to Ubuntu) made the top of that list they deserve it.
- Tangaroa, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Slack was one of the first distros, period. I think it was them, Red Hat, Yggdrasil, and one or two others that were early distros before Linux started its quest for total world domination. Later on, Slack had a way of installing itself alongside Win9x on a FAT partition so you could run Linux without fiddling with partitioning or boot loaders which could wipe out your system if you weren't careful. This was the introduction to Linux for a lot of people in the late 1990s who only had one computer and needed Windows for work and gaming.
- sloppychris, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I don't get how people familiar with these distributions would expect to learn much from a few paragraph overview of each one. These articles aren't for 10 year experienced linux users. They're for people like me who just began, and want a quick history so we have some idea of what is going on.
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Almost every review covers ease, flexibility, and polish of the distros in their current states. But this fills a gap that needed filling.
An article like this offers a nice way to compare distributions, especially where one generally wants to stick with primarily one for a decent time span. Comparison of current technical merits is certainly worthwhile, but often yields too little differentiation to generate a confident choice. But knowledge of what the distros are "about" and where they're headed really helps users pick a distro that fits their values and expectations for development and growth, and this article addressed that admirably. - Coldkill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Stop trolling
- childprey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2He mentioned Yggdrasil which trumps the live-cd power of Knoppix.
And Madriva's not as notable now, but a few years ago before anyone had heard of obscure south African philosophies it was THE viable desktop option. - Chicken001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I dugg you down. Linux Is Not Unix.
- known, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1democracy and meritocracy are distinct.
- monkeyboy7706, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Am I the only person who switched from ubuntu to debian?
- MasteRR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Maybe, but Knoppix really pushed the trend more than Yggdrasil, thus I would say it is more influential.
- Chicken001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1***** YEAH.
- whereisian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2BSD is *nix
- Philluminati, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1complete prat, you didn't read pages 2 and 3.
- Chicken001, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How will you know if the others work better than Ubuntu? Wait, you have to try it, oh damn.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What the *****? I think I saw this dude ranting and raving a few days ago on IRC. No matter how much we'd tell him OS X wasn't a Linux distro, he wouldn't believe it, even when we linked to Apple's page.
Dumbass. - MasteRR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23 Pages just to list 7 distros? I am tempted to mark as spam.
And where is Knoppix? It basically started the Live-CD trend that nearly every distro since has followed. And Mandriva? Not that influential... - slaver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You shouldn't. If you're pleased with what you have why bother changing?
- xspinkickx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no I actually switched from ubuntu to debian and went back to ubuntu.
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3It's not obvious to everyone. Come on, a newbie might find this interesting.
- Philluminati, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Unix -> BSD -> Mac OS X
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