Comments on: Linux family tree, version 0.90

By: giovanni

giovanni — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:28:31 +0000

Hi Ian !
What about a branch from Debian to OpenSolaris and Solaris, too ?

By: Gaston

Gaston — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:05:50 +0000

Hi, Ian. I look forward to the completion of this project (even when evolution seems unstoppable, that is, there will be new distros all the time). ;-)

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:28:04 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:01:49 +0000

It would have been hilarious if you had just copyrighted the thing with no Creative Commons and prohibited reproduction. Hehe. I would love to have seen the comments from the Trotskyite Linuxheads.

By: Bryan Kam

Bryan Kam — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:39:19 +0000

I’d highly recommend a look at Arch. I’ve just returned to it after two (great) years with Debian. For servers, it can’t compare to Debian’s stability, but for a laptop, I feel like the end result is “mine” rather than Debian’s (you may of course disagree :).

The package manager (Pacman) is extremely fast and simple to use, and creating new packages is a breeze. It’s a great distro for people who like to run a fast, minimal system, to tinker with configuration, and to run extremely new software.

By: C.J. Adams-Collier

C.J. Adams-Collier — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:31:30 +0000

Hasn’t Sun gotten you to stop fiddling with Linux yet, Ian? :)

By: Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Saturday, 26-Sep-09 22:20:25 UTC - Identi.ca

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:20:37 +0000

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By: Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:54:04 +0000

Nice! -ian

By: Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:21:44 +0000

Ah yes, Stampede should be in there. I’m not sure about the others (I’ve never heard of backtrack or SME Server/e-smith), though Arch has been mentioned twice and is in DistroWatch’s top 20, so maybe it should be too. I’ve been a bit out of the loop the past few years, so I’m not sure what’s considered “influential” these days (that’s the metric I’m using for what gets included—see above comment). I’ve certainly never run across Arch “in the wild”, though that’s admittedly been largely commercial environments the past many years, so it might be nice to include some of the top hobbyist distributions, particularly if they make for a nice profusion of leaf nodes. Opinions welcome. -ian

By: Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:09:42 +0000

Note that this is largely meant to serve as a guide for Mark and isn’t really intended to be attractive on its own (I’ll be the first to admit it’s rather ugly). Also note that I’m deliberating trying to limit the distros to the most influential ones—including all of them in the final piece would be unwieldy (the others you cite look like they aim to be comprehensive). -ian