[sf-lug] Linux distros

[Justin Noor]

I forgot about Distrowatch. Their site just brought me back to the
nineties, though hah. Considering the insane amount of work and
responsibility involved with maintaining a formidable distro, it’s amazing
how many there are.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 1/8/19 11:47 AM, Justin Noor wrote:
>
> Hey Bobbie off the top of your head, roughly how many Linux distros do you
> think exist?
>
>
>     If you look at Distrowatch and the Distrowatch weekly newsletter
>  you can find the numbers but if  you mean active distros less than 400.
>
>     Many of these are regional adaptation, like Deepin and Ubuntu Kyolin
> for Asian
> userrs, Septor for Serbians, there is a Turkish distro and quite a few
> oltehr
> France has several, Russia has several copying old Mandriva.
>     Then there are server only distribution, forensic, and distros for
> hobbyists
> like the Ham Radio operators, and anime/manga lovers.
> <https://distrowatch.com/> <https://distrowatch.com/>
>
>     And the latest special distribution has to be CAELinux for people
> who want to control special machines like 3d printers.
>
>     Then there are special cases like Funtoo which publishs no disk images
> but
> tells you how to install a Gentoo based Linux using a System Rescue Disk.
>
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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