<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>That reputation is deserved. You only get a command-line distro after installing. You need to install X, GNOME, etc, yourself. The result is a lot less clutter and you have what you want. It also means you need to have some knowledge of Linux. I don't recommend it for beginners, but I sometimes recommend it to more savvy users.<br><br>As to why some are the most popular, I can think of a few reasons. Some people only want to use one of the leaders. That's a valid concern. A minor distro could disappear. The major distros might also be more polished and have a bigger repository.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Mike Bean" <beandaemon@gmail.com><br>To: "CLUE talk" <clue-talk@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Monday, October 4, 2010 10:42:55 PM<br>Subject: Re: [clue-talk] best/worst/most interesting distro?<br><br><br>Arch is number 8 I think. It sort of has a "harder then fedora, not as<br>hard as gentoo/slackware" sort of reputation. Seems a little curious,<br>like most of the top 6 have corporate backers. Canonical for Ubuntu,<br>Red Hat for Fedora, Novell for SUSE. I know the money's got to come<br>from somewhere, but I do think it's interesting that frequently the most<br>heavily used distros are the ones with the greatest funding.<br><br><br>On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:56 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote:<br>> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 21:13 -0600, Mike Bean wrote:<br>> > Question, was reading the thread about multiboots in the tech<br>> > partition, got curious. Thought I'd better ask over here, because<br>> > at the end of the day, the answer to the question is largely<br>> > subjective and a matter of personal taste. (not a technical matter)<br>> > <br>> > I keep an eye on distrowatch, and I don't think it'll shock anyone<br>> > to assert that most people use the to 6 or so distros on their list,<br>> > both at home and at work, but I got a little curious. Someone's<br>> > using those other distros, somewhere... So I thought I'd just come<br>> > over and ask for opinions, what's your best/worst/most interesting<br>> > distro? What do you use at home? Provided there are those of us<br>> > out there, who don't automatically use Ubuntu.<br>> > <br>> > (I ask partly out of curiousity, and partly out vague hope that'll<br>> > give people an excuse to bring up a distro I haven't seen before<br>> > they find interesting, so I can check it out!)<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > clue-talk mailing list<br>> > clue-talk@cluedenver.org<br>> > http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-talk<br>> <br>> I use Arch Linux. I don't know if it is one of the top 6. Probably<br>> not. <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> clue-talk mailing list<br>> clue-talk@cluedenver.org<br>> http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-talk<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-talk mailing list<br>clue-talk@cluedenver.org<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue-talk<br></div></body></html>