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DistroWatch

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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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  • Free • Proprietary

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Country of Origin

  • CA flagCanada

Platforms

  • Online
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5 / 5 Avg rating (6)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

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  1.  No registration required
  2.  GNU/linux-libre

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DistroWatch information

  • Developed by

    CA flagLadislav Bodnar

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

  • Alternatives

    5 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about DistroWatch, and it has gotten 119 likes

DistroWatch was added to AlternativeTo by Valentin on Dec 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022. DistroWatch is sometimes referred to as DistroWatch.com.

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Caner ÖZDEMIR
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•Jun 19, 2019
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One of the best source of news, popularity, reviews etc about Linux and BSD distros.

Sailaway33
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•Apr 7, 2024
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It is the place to keep up or find diffrent distrubitoins of Linux/\GNU or BSD

ab1
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•Apr 27, 2022
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Shows versions of important packages like glibc, browser and compilers...

Álvaro Ayres
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•May 31, 2020
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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]

anonymous404
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•Mar 7, 2018
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This site is super helpful when looking for distros. The internet wouldn't be the same without it.

UncleNinja
•Nov 21, 2010
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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.

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.

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