Uhm 10?
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| Author | Content |
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| mbaehrlxer Sep 03, 2014 9:53 PM EDT |
sorry, could not resist! christine makes a great point though, she is actually asking how many unique distributions there are. it would also be interesting to look at how much further down the ranking the next unique distribution appears. greetings, eMBee. (goes back into hiding) |
| the_doctor Sep 03, 2014 10:38 PM EDT |
 Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;) |
| kikinovak Sep 04, 2014 12:26 AM EDT |
As far as I'm concerned, there's only two Linux distributions. 1. Slackware 2. not Slackware :o) |
| BernardSwiss Sep 04, 2014 12:51 AM EDT |
Quoting: As far as I'm concerned, there's only two Linux distributions. I'm afraid you're behind the times -- the two Linux distributions are now 1. Systemd 2. not Systemd :-P - - - - - - - Actually, I figure there's, effectively, five types of Linux: 1. Apt (deb) ... 2. RPM ... 3. TGZ ... 4. Source ... 5. odd-ball (ie. everything else) (though, the way things are going, I may have to revise my scheme as indicated...) |
| mbaehrlxer Sep 04, 2014 2:01 AM EDT |
maybe we need to look at biological classification, you know, class, order, family, species... class could be the package format: rpm, deb, tgz, source... family, the package manager: yum, yast, apt, emerge, ports, etc... species, the actual distribution... greetings, eMBee. |
| number6x Sep 04, 2014 9:38 AM EDT |
Don't forget the hybrids. For example, SuSE is Slackware with RPM. |
| Bob_Robertson Sep 04, 2014 9:50 AM EDT |
And Ubuntu is ego with apt. |
| seatex Sep 04, 2014 10:50 AM EDT |
Only one distro that matters, if you drink the Kool-Aid. |
| jdixon Sep 04, 2014 4:27 PM EDT |
> As far as I'm concerned, there's only two Linux distributions. ... 1. Slackware 2. not Slackware The four main family trees of Linux seem to be Slackware, Debian, Red Hat, and source based (Gentoo, for example), There are a few others out there, but these four seem to cover something like 95+% of all distributions. |
| gus3 Sep 04, 2014 6:16 PM EDT |
Let's not forget live-image (Knoppix et al.). |
| jdixon Sep 04, 2014 10:07 PM EDT |
> Let's not forget live-image (Knoppix et al.). I thought Knoppix used a Debian base? |
| Bob_Robertson Sep 05, 2014 9:30 AM EDT |
> I thought Knoppix used a Debian base? Yep. |
| devnet Sep 05, 2014 9:42 AM EDT |
Quoting:Actually, I figure there's, effectively, five types of Linux: You forgot Arch Linux...which is none of the above and I'd say it's too much a part of mainstream to be an odd-ball now. |
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