Website displaying info about free software Unix-like distributions
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DistroWatch
Type of site
News website
Available in
English[notes 1]
Owner
Ladislav Bodnar
Revenue
Advertisement
URL
distrowatch.com
Commercial
Yes
Registration
No
Launched
31 May 2001 (2001-05-31)
DistroWatch is a website which provides news, distribution pages hit rankings, and other general information about various Linux distributions as well as other free software/open source Unix-like operating systems. It now contains information on several hundred distributions [1] and a few hundred distributions labeled as active.[2]
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^"DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". DistroWatch. Retrieved 29 Jan 2019.
^"DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". DistroWatch. Retrieved 29 Jan 2019.
distribution world on a weekly basis". Distrowatch has a monthly donations program, a joint initiative between DistroWatch and two online shops selling low-cost...
from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2019-07-19. "DistroWatch.com: PureOS". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved...
the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved March 24, 2019. "DistroWatch.com: Quirky". distrowatch.com. Retrieved March 24, 2019. "Quirky Linux Gets More Pep...
back to what a great Linux distro should be." By the end of October 2011 Lubuntu had risen to seventh place on the DistroWatch one month popularity list...
actually a really good feedback loop. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on 31...
2015. Retrieved September 11, 2015. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". distrowatch.com. Archived from the original on November...
04 LTS". DistroWatch. Archived from the original on 2 May 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2022. "Opinion poll: Ubuntu adopting more Snaps". DistroWatch. 2 May 2022...
Desktop OS". mxlinux.org. Retrieved 30 September 2021. "DistroWatch.com: MX Linux". distrowatch.com. Retrieved 30 September 2021. "So what are the minimum...
com "Distribution Release: SolydXK 201401 (DistroWatch.com News)". distrowatch.com. Upstart SolydXK Distro Seeks First Business Customers, January 28...
several months. As of May 2024, Void is the highest rated project on DistroWatch, with a score of 9.26 out of 10. Void is a notable exception to the majority...
downloads in the month preceding 24 February 2022. Jesse Smith from DistroWatch reviewed Raspbian in 2015: Though I did not intend to run the Raspberry...
4 June 2012. DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". distrowatch.com. DistroWatch. "DistroWatch.com: Put the...
Smith, Jesse (September 24, 2018). "DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD". distrowatch.com. Retrieved 2023-05-27. Speed, Richard...
January 2018). "MX Linux 17". DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Copenhagen: distrowatch.com. Retrieved 24 October 2021...
0 Release Date "Distribution Release: Linux Lite 1.0.0 (DistroWatch.com News)". DistroWatch. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2017. "Roadmap". Retrieved...
original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023. "DistroWatch.com: Kaisen Linux". DistroWatch.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2023....
traditional distro, or even a traditional Unix, but it works and we can see the appeal. NixOS 23.11 "Tapir" reviewed by Jesse Smith at DistroWatch: NixOS is...
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