desktoplinux.com— There are hundreds of Linux distributions. This is DesktopLinux.com's list of the ones they think are especially interesting for desktop Linux users.
Sep 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
Distrowatch is great if you need to find out about some unknown distro or are interested in the packages numbers a certain distro offers.If you need some more detailed information on the popular GNU/Linux and BSD distros, you can also check out <a class="user" href="http://PolishLinux.org">http://PolishLinux.org</a> vortal. The summaries of the popular OS-s are those links on the left sidebar, and here: <a class="user" href="http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/">http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/</a> is a comparison table (still in beta) which tries to compare main features of different Linux and BSD flavors.But this list of DesktopLinux is a nice overview as well. Notice that it lists desktop Linux distributions (the ones that target desktops), not all popular ones, as some of you apparently misunderstood.
Yes, I agree. If they name is "a desktop linux" then they should include desktop distros only (like PCLinuxOS, MEPIS, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Vector and alike). Still it is not that bad, perhaps they just use Arch at home :)
freongrrSep 22, 2006
What about Mandriva?
dbalaskiSep 22, 2006
Agreed that this is a rather selective list....I'm going to plug my favorite: CENTOS
punchsideironSep 22, 2006
It's the 9th entry on the list.
michukSep 22, 2006
Distrowatch is great if you need to find out about some unknown distro or are interested in the packages numbers a certain distro offers.If you need some more detailed information on the popular GNU/Linux and BSD distros, you can also check out <a class="user" href="http://PolishLinux.org">http://PolishLinux.org</a> vortal. The summaries of the popular OS-s are those links on the left sidebar, and here: <a class="user" href="http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/">http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/</a> is a comparison table (still in beta) which tries to compare main features of different Linux and BSD flavors.But this list of DesktopLinux is a nice overview as well. Notice that it lists desktop Linux distributions (the ones that target desktops), not all popular ones, as some of you apparently misunderstood.
michukSep 22, 2006
Yes, I agree. If they name is "a desktop linux" then they should include desktop distros only (like PCLinuxOS, MEPIS, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Vector and alike). Still it is not that bad, perhaps they just use Arch at home :)
pauldonnellySep 22, 2006
Why not? Plenty of Arch users use it on their desktops.