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I got all 18. I may need to get a life. Is there a 12-step program for distro-hoppers?

not 12 but 18 steps: you repeat the 18 questions of the survey until you no longer care...

greetings, eMBee.

15 of 18. I'm not very good on penetration or Mandrake derived distros.

An "A" myself w/ only one mistake, but this Linux Distros Quiz completely left out ALL the Linux LIVECD distros. For example Linuxcare's LNX-BBC (going way way back), Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, SimpleMEPIS, Puppy Linux, SystemRescueCD, Slax,...etc. Don't remember what LNX-BBC and MEPIS were based on, but Puppy Linux has ALWAYS been a distro entity by itself.

IIRC, Knoppix and DSL are/were both based on Debian, SysResCD was/is based on Gentoo (passing mention of Genoo in one of this quiz's Q's), and Slax has always been based on Slackware.

2c

17/18

Wasn't familiar with Manjaro.

I guess I'll have to look into it.

Answering some implied questions (snowed in, boredom...)

Mepis was Debian-based. It was one of the easiest to install distros for a while, a fine and stable effort. I see mention of Mepis packages (I guess they still maintain a repo) on the Debian forums, so maybe this one rises from the ashes someday. I think the head guy was named Warren...

Manjaro is for me the most intriguing newer distro on the scene. Arch-based, but with their own repos, ostensibly for stability. Easy install, user-friendly tools, great artwork, friendly and helpful community... It's like the Mint of the Arch landscape.

14/18 got a mixture wrong. n'ye

flufferbeer: complaining about a quiz like that shows that you are suffering from linux addiction to the highest order.

please seek help immediately!

greetings, eMBee.

I got 16/18 (88.88%) myself and I have never used any but Suse first and Kubuntu since Novell bought Suse.

17 out of 18. The fact that I used to write for DistroWatch may have something to do with that.

14/18.

Which one did you miss, caitlynm?

Believe it or not, Fedora. It's the way they worded the question. Red Hat never discontinued the desktop version. They just renamed the community version.

> Red Hat never discontinued the desktop version. They just renamed the community version.

I thought there was about a six month gap between the discontinuing of Red Hat Linux and the creation of Fedora?

Not that I remember, no. I could be wrong but I don't think so.

@jdixon

> I thought there was about a six month gap between the discontinuing of Red Hat Linux and the creation of Fedora?

IIRC, the last remaining NON-enterprise version of Red Hat Linux was RH9 "Shrike". i do remember quite clearly that the first ALL-COMMUNITY version of Fedora was actually called Fedora Core 1, soon to be followed by Fedora Core 2 "Tettnang". Could turn out to be that FC1 came just after RH9 or simulaneous with it.

2 more c's

> IIRC, the last remaining NON-enterprise version of Red Hat Linux was RH9...

Correct. Here's a chart from Red Hat with some relevant dates, but it doesn't make clear when the announcements of the discontinuation of Red Hat Linux and the start of Fedora were: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux

My memory tells me that the discontinuation of Red Hat Linux was very shortly after the release of Red Hat 9, but that was almost 13 years ago, and it may not be reliable.

The dates we do have are that Red Hat Linux 9.0 came out March 31, 2003 and the Fedora announcement came on Sept 25, 2003.

My recollection of this was that it was just a renaming event, not a discontinuation and a fresh start. RH9 was released as one version and then the next version came out labeled Fedora Core 1.

> My recollection of this was that it was just a renaming event, not a discontinuation and a fresh start. RH9 was released as one version and then the next version came out labeled Fedora Core 1.

Essentially, yes. But that wasn't clear from the outside, My memory says there were quite a bit of confusion as to how Red Hat was going to handle things before the Fedora announcement came out.

17/18. Never owned a smartphone. :o)

I got 17/18, but what really gets me is that the one I missed should not have been the hardest for me to answer.