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...



Comments about DistroWatch as an Alternative to Repology


DistroWatch is the most popular Web-based alternative to Repology.
DistroWatch is the most popular free alternative to Repology.
- DistroWatch is Free and Proprietary
- DistroWatch is Lightweight



DistroWatch primarily tracks (GNU/)Linux & xBSD distros alongside a few selected packages. Repology claims to "monitor a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other information". The only difference is scope.