DistroWatch
The DistroWatch web site was first published on 31 May 2001. The concept started as a very simple table comprising of 5 major distributions and the chart only compared a few features (price, version, release date) and a few package versions (Linux kernel, KDE, GNOME, XFree86...
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- Lightweight
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- No registration required
- GNU/linux-libre
Tags
- Web service
- open source
- choose-linux-distro
- compare-distros
- distros
- distributions
DistroWatch News & Activities
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What is DistroWatch?
The DistroWatch web site was first published on 31 May 2001. The concept started as a very simple table comprising of 5 major distributions and the chart only compared a few features (price, version, release date) and a few package versions (Linux kernel, KDE, GNOME, XFree86, Apache). In trying to make it slightly more comprehensive and useful, more distributions, features and packages were added until the table reached a fairly reasonable state in terms of information provided. At that stage, the table was moved from a spreadsheet into an HTML document and it was shared with the Linux community worldwide.
DistroWatch information
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Ladislav Bodnar Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
Comments and Reviews
One of the best source of news, popularity, reviews etc about Linux and BSD distros.
It is the place to keep up or find diffrent distrubitoins of Linux/\GNU or BSD
Shows versions of important packages like glibc, browser and compilers...
Really good website. You see the info on your favorite distros and discover new ones. Unfortunately I have to use a proxy or VPN to access it. DistroWatch seems to be blocking IPs coming from outside the US.
Edit: It's working fine now. =)
[Edited by Reborn, November 28]
This site is super helpful when looking for distros. The internet wouldn't be the same without it.
This is a website, not an application. What, do I make an entry on alternativeTo for my website too?
A moderator should probably delete this.