Re: [PLUG] is there an audience for linux matrix?

[James Barrett <jadoba@jadoba.net>]

Mag Gam wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions

What linuxmatrix will do is similar to that, but more efficiently and 
even more in-depth.  It will be easier to compare only the distributions 
one wants to compare, and it will allow someone to do so with more 
features in which to evaluate.

Currently, with wikipedia's structure there is no way to view only the 
ones you want to compare and leave the rest.  Additionally, wikipedia's 
list does not inform about more advanced things such as each distro's 
init structure, available versions of standard system tools such as 
iptables, where binaries are installed by the package manager or the 
version of the default desktop environment.

There would be a section dealing only with live distributions. 
Wikipedia's live Linux CD content is trivial at best:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_LiveDistros

-James
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