Michael Leone on 14 Nov 2008 19:12:53 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Distros


brent timothy saner wrote:
> Brian Vagnoni wrote:
>> Exactly, looking for a one stop table, or database, or spreadsheet,
> or
website that would highlight the differences for folks. Thinking about
doing a project for the community.
> 
> 
> 
> ahem.
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
> 
> 
> i'm surprised you didn't know about that.

It's a page of links, each to a description of what is in each distro.
But it's not a comparison table, with highlights of differences ... (I'm
not sure you could easily do that, since each distro could conceivably
run however many desktop environments, etc)

> as for the "TOP" ten in terms of quality, that's honestly a bit to
> subjective to provide a comprehensive database on.

He didn't ask for "quality", but listing of differences.

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