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1 • Merry Xmas to you too Ladislav... (by Aussie on 2004-12-20 09:59:50 GMT)
and also the folks of DistroWatch ;-P
2 • Merry Christmas (by Honaby at 2004-12-20 10:11:32 GMT)
Merry Christmas and a happy Linux!
3 • Merry Christmas (by Anonymous Penguin on 2004-12-20 10:59:06 GMT)
Merry Xmas to you Ladislav, you truly deserve it! :-)
4 • Seasons Greetings (by Mark at 2004-12-20 11:12:09 GMT)
Seasons grettings everyone, especially Lalislav for his truly outstanding coverage of distributions. May next year be a great year for GNU, linux and BSD.
5 • Merry Christmas (by FreeBSD daemon on 2004-12-20 11:19:36 GMT)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
6 • Well Done (by Max on 2004-12-20 11:23:06 GMT)
Keep up the good work Ladislav
A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to you and all DWatchers...
7 • Merry Xmas... (by Nico at 2004-12-20 11:49:21 GMT)
...and big THANX for your support here on this great distro-page!
More from SAM next year,
Nico
www.sam-linux.org
8 • keep up the good job.....! (by Usman on 2004-12-20 12:03:30 GMT)
You are doing a tremendous job!! Keep it up.!!
The featured distribution..' Linux from Scratch ' is definitely one of the best project around. I am thinking about making my own distribution in these holidays.
And good to hear that Patrick Volkerding is better :)
Have a question...anybody know which are the oldest distributions still under active development...?
9 • Merry Christmas (by Michael_Valentine on 2004-12-20 12:18:35 GMT)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)
10 • Merry Christmas (by Michael Magua at 2004-12-20 12:33:41 GMT)
and keep up the good work ;-)
11 • Merry Christmas (by Capnkirby at 2004-12-20 12:39:41 GMT)
and a Happy GNU Year!
12 • Thanks For All Your Hard Work (by Old_Man_Newbie at 2004-12-20 13:10:31 GMT)
I am now entering into the second year of exploring Linux and Open Source Software. I tell everyone about Linux and Open Source Software and I tell everyone about DistroWatch. Thanks For All The Hard Work and For Teaching Old Dogs (Like Me) New Tricks.
13 • Have a Snappy Solstice! (by just john at 2004-12-20 13:28:01 GMT)
(wayans_bros)MoLinux, MoLinux, MoLinux!!(/wayans_bros)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I have a question for the congregation: What's a good online forum (bbs, newsgroup, whatever) for distro addicts? I got questions and such, and googling finds me places where people make claims like "You can't read from an .iso file!" (Which I know is untrue, since a Mac Roxio product will happily mount such a file as a disk, and I found that out without even looking for it.)
14 • re:keep up the good job.....! (by Usman on 2004-12-20 12:03:30 GMT) (by maceto on 2004-12-20 13:28:09 GMT)
Slackware is the oldest,debian pretty old, lots of others but not active anymore
15 • A Brazilian Merry Christmas!!! (by Flavio at 2004-12-20 13:38:20 GMT)
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and a 2005 with a lot of good Linux surprises...
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pt_BR:
E para os leitores de língua portuguesa... Boas Festas!!!
16 • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (by SyntaxError at 2004-12-20 13:58:25 GMT)
Ladislav,
Thanks for a wonder work on DistroWatch.
May you and your family have the greatest and joyous holidays!!!!
17 • Seasons Greatings (by CJ on 2004-12-20 14:42:14 GMT)
Everyone have a safe and wonderful holiday (however you wish to celebrate it).
Thanx Ladislav for all the info you have provided to us.
18 • Happy New Linux Year (by Ibrahim Eusof at 2004-12-20 15:14:28 GMT)
Merry X'mas and Happy New Year. Enjoyed your site tremendously and my source of information. I started Linux this year just after my 59th birthday and my knowledge about Linux has grown by leaps and bounds. Thanks to your page.
19 • Merry Christmas!!! (by Porti at 2004-12-20 15:21:44 GMT)
Ladislav and Distrowatch team... and all readers!
"Imagine all the people, living life in peace..." (J. Lennon)
Thanks for your fantastic site!
Best regards from Seville (Spain).
Porti.
20 • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (by Lino on 2004-12-20 15:26:29 GMT)
圣诞快乐! 新年快乐!
(Greetings in Chinese that I managed to input from FC3 and, of course, Firefox)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Ladislav and every one here! I have been using Linux since 1998 and in the last two years or so DistroWatch has been the first page I go every day. Please accept my wholehearted thanks!
21 • MEPIS (by Anonymous on 2004-12-20 16:24:01 GMT)
I seem to be unable to get a clue about the difference between SimplyMepis and ProMEPIS except that the included packages vary slightly in selection and versions. Can anyone enlighten me please?
22 • Merry Christmas and Happy New Linux (by Zlaja at 2004-12-20 16:26:50 GMT)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Linux Year to all who love the best OS on the Earth.
23 • no no no (by sn0n at 2004-12-20 16:50:03 GMT)
who said you can have next monday off? certainly not me.. i want my monday issue!! its like the only thing i look forward to on mondays.. cuz it certainly isnt work im lookin forward to...
;-)
no.. really thou.. what up with next monday.. ;-)
24 • No subject (by Swistak at 2004-12-20 16:54:51 GMT)
Wesołych świąt i szczęśliwego nowego roku! (greetings in Polish :-)
25 • Mepis content (by Colnago at 2004-12-20 17:12:28 GMT)
The pro version has kde 3.3.x and some servers and development tools that are not on the simply version. In general. pro seems to be more for the bleeding edge type. ..
"ProMEPIS includes Kdevelop3 and the QT development tools. Also a number of servers are preinstalled including Apache, MySQL, ProFTDd, TFTP, DHCP3, Rsync, Bind9, and eXim4."
26 • No subject (by Abel at 2004-12-20 17:26:31 GMT)
merry christmas all... keep up the great work next year guys!!!
27 • Merry Christmas (by Jared at 2004-12-20 17:37:45 GMT)
You're a good man, Ladislav!
Thank you for all you do.
Have a Merry Christmas and good New Year.
28 • Merry Christmas (by Haldir at 2004-12-20 17:58:16 GMT)
Merry Christmas Ladislav and a Happy New Year.
Thanks for all the work you do keeping this one of the best sites that I go to.
29 • Uber Merry Christmas To Ye All (by Ross at 2004-12-20 18:20:04 GMT)
It's been a good year for GNU/Linux and OSS on the whole, we have seen many improvements in the Linux kernels, the SCO attack go down in flames, Firefox hitting in big time in the browser market, new innovative distributions, alot of inroads being made across the industry and a flurry of new members into our Open Source community.
Kudos to everyone involved, from the kernel developers to the distribution teams, the corporations backing the rise to glory (at least for now...), all the users helping each other out, sharing knowledge and spreading the word, and all the site admins bringing us the latest news and information, and helping us download the latest and greatest Open Source software. Everyone has helped out in their own way and this is what makes the community so strong.
Personally, we would like to thank DW.com and Ladislav for not only providing the best source of Linux distro information and news on the net, but also for being so helpful and kind regarding our advertising partnership, long may it continue. We wish you a happy festive season.
No one knows what the new year will bring or take away, but I think the future looks good for the community, popularity is soaring and shows no sign of stopping. Keep up the good work.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year to all from TLMP.
Ross & Matt
The Linux Mirror Project
30 • Greetings and Shana Tovah!! (by Isaac at 2004-12-20 18:20:26 GMT)
Happy Holidays and a Good New Year from Israel!!
Keep your wonderful job, Ladislav !!
Your site is simply the Linux Reference Site by excellence !!!
DistroWatch Rules!!!
31 • Kurumin (by CJ on 2004-12-20 18:34:59 GMT)
Does Kurumin support the english language?
32 • Happy Holidays (by x at 2004-12-20 18:49:18 GMT)
May the comming year be better than the prior.
Thank you for making this available to everyone, Distrowatch has come a long way over the years.
Perhaps an article on what prompted you to put this together, and the trials and tribulations encountered along the way to this point might be an interesting read. I have noticed quite a few changes, some almost unnoticed others glaringly obvious.
I believe Distrowatch has had a positive impact in the spread of the open scource operating systems and associated software. One location with a general description of the distributions' packages and versions, links to reviews, forums, ect..., this is a valueable contribution to the advancement of general computing usage. Without Distrowatch, choosing the right distribution for a particular task would be a more difficult task, not everyone has the time or ability to tryout every o/s under the sun or in the dark,just to find what they need. The well intentioned recomendations of friends and associates are not always the best fit. Here you have provided every one with convenient access to research and choose what will fit our needs.
Our thanks to you and all who participate with Distrowatch.
33 • Merry Xmas (by Zor on 2004-12-20 20:16:19 GMT)
Thanks for another year of great info and
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
to you and all your readers
34 • X.org 6.8.1 in PCLinuxOS, FC3 (by ATI and Nvidia User at 2004-12-20 20:33:58 GMT)
Now here is another problem for me and others, the two distributions I am most familiar with have upgraded to xorg 6.8.1. ATI's proprietary drivers will crash it when dri is enabled. You can not get 3d working on newer ati cards unless you downgrade to xorg 6.7.0 at least or wait for, possibly a very long time, for ATI to release new drivers.
Downgrading xorg 6.7.0 is a lot of work. I myself will resort switching to debian or perhaps even gentoo because gentoo lets you hold back one package while keeping the rest updated and debian is still with XFree86. Perhaps all my new machines will just have to use Nvidia cards. I have no trouble from them.
I have to go to http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/radeon.shtml just to get some improved ati drivers that do not wipe out my libraries (Nvidia's don't do this). If ATI wants to leave there drivers closed source they need to keep up to the upstream. It has been about three months or something since 6.8.1 was released.
35 • ATI (by MixMatch on 2004-12-20 21:11:24 GMT)
I've always used NVidia cards, and have never had problems getting 3d to work... its great.
36 • Merry Xmas (by Andrew on 2004-12-20 21:12:10 GMT)
Merry Christmas!
Cheers for another great year!
37 • A Good Xmass Gift... (by EdCrypt at 2004-12-20 21:46:41 GMT)
...may be a kurumin subscription ( http://www.guiadohardware.net/kurumin/assine/ - in portuguese)
BTW, Merry Xmass Ladislav!
38 • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (by FreeBSD User on 2004-12-20 22:10:14 GMT)
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody, and I don't want to see any more Linux distributions discontinued next year!
39 • Merry Xmas from Québec (by Marc on 2004-12-20 22:32:18 GMT)
A Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you Ladislav
and to all DW readers.
You will make my dream come true, one day ....
One world who share a free OS.
Cheers !!!!
40 • Up and down... (by andrew at 2004-12-20 22:38:29 GMT)
This week I was delighted by the return of Root Linux - a distro I was pretty sure was dead, since their last release was in 2002. It was also interesting to see little known source based distro called LRS discontinued a while ago now return as equally obscure MyGeOs... But I am very sad about Evil Entity. I wanted to see that one continue! Well, perhaps some of it will live on in Arcane Linux.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all Distrowatch readers, and Ladislav - thank you for all your work!
41 • Fedora Project (by MixMatch on 2004-12-21 01:52:13 GMT)
I went to FedoraProject.org and didn't see any packages... is it just me?
42 • @MixMatch (by andrew at 2004-12-21 03:49:47 GMT)
It's just you :)
http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/i386/
43 • last of 2004? (by EEDOK at 2004-12-21 06:18:42 GMT)
What no dww next week?
44 • Can't edit posts.. (by EEDOK at 2004-12-21 06:27:10 GMT)
One thing about Arcane linux, it's not based on another distribution(it's being made from the ground up), it's utilising apt and kudzu though.
45 • Happy Holidays, Ladislav (by SFN on 2004-12-21 13:59:57 GMT)
The work you do provides the world with the best possible insights into Linux. Thanks for everything.
46 • Happy Holidays (by William Roddy at 2004-12-22 03:32:18 GMT)
Happy Holidays to Ladislav and to all the rest of you who have been so kind to me while I explore open source.
Opening DistroWatch is like Christmas morning, every day.
47 • usual (by im_ka at 2004-12-22 03:38:08 GMT)
merry christmas and a happy new year to everyone involved in open source!
48 • Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday! (by Vic on 2004-12-22 08:07:41 GMT)
Wishing all Linux fans (Linus Torvalds included) and Ladislav in particular for a bleeding edge and inforich website. I visit this site several times a day in search of new/improved distros. Keep up the good work, Lad, and may we all live to see the next generation of Linux.
49 • Feliz Navidad ! (by pegaj_oso at 2004-12-22 14:20:47 GMT)
Feliz Navidad y un Prospero Año Nuevo para todos los entusiastas de Linux y Ladislav en especial, por su sitio lleno de lo último en distribuciones.
50 • Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday! (by Moe Bergeron at 2004-12-22 15:21:01 GMT)
Ladislav,
Your site makes Christmas come throughout the year with every new LiveCD and Distro announcement.
Isaiah 42:6,
Moe
51 • Merry Christmas (by Darth Yoshi at 2004-12-22 22:19:38 GMT)
Merry Christmas to all of you and thanks for introducing me to the world of Linux. Christmas truly is every morning now!
52 • Merry Christmas (by Tom on 2004-12-22 23:27:33 GMT)
Merry Christmas Laydislav and everyone else.
You do a great job!
53 • Question on Recent LFS Article (by Vijay at 2004-12-24 13:40:59 GMT)
Season's Greetings to Ladislav and all regulars at Distrowatch.com
I have been reading reviews here for more than a year. This is the first time I am posting here.
1. Is it really true that one can build an entire LFS system from scratch if one is familiar with Linux in about two days or so ? I have a Pentium 333 MHz machine and a few informed me that a build of LFS takes about 6 months or so. I was very discouraged and put the project for very long term.
2. For starters it would be very helpful if there was an LFS manual specifically to build Damn Small Linux from scratch. This would be very helpful to try quickly and get a practical good working grasp of LFS for newbies. This will be like a great working example.
3. Also, is LFS good for rpm type as well as slackware type distros ?
4. How does The recently reviewed T2 differ from Gentoo and LFS ? T2 Site: http://www.exactcode.de/t2/about.html
Eagerly looking forward to responses/clarifications.
Thanks for the great site and looking forward to a great 2005 in regards to more Linux Reviews.
Vijay
54 • Holiday Wishes (by RC Nelson on 2004-12-24 21:12:00 GMT)
Thanks to Ladislav and all the people that work on DistroWatch. A very Happy New Year to one and all.
55 • Conectiva - most overlooked distro ? (by mikkh at 2004-12-25 10:32:09 GMT)
Having spent the last year or so trying dozens and dozens of distros, some impress immediately, some require minimal tweaking to get the best out of them, and some are just so far ahead of others, it makes me wonder why they aren't more popular.
One in particular also qualifies for one of the oldest distros around, and it's no surprise that the older distros are not only more stable, but more usable and quicker in operation - like Slackware for instance.
So why is Conectiva so often overlooked?
A notoriously hard install? Nope, it's probably the easiest distro to install of all of them
Lack of multimedia support? Nope, Conectiva is the only distro I know that plays DVD's automatically.
Badly configured desktop? Nope it's pretty as a picture and better than Mandrake and Suse in that respect IMO
Actually I know what the problem is, this Brazilian masterpiece has a non english homepage and people assume the install will be non english too - It's NOT
Just click the American flag on the first screen you see and Robert is your fathers brother !
Conectiva is right up there with Red Hat/Fedora, Mandrake, Suse and Slackware. but is languishing in the also rans in the top 100. It's definately a top ten contender and if I had to stick to only one distro, it would be a hard choice between Conectiva and Slackware, with Yoper and Mepis also in the running for a top five place.
If you haven't tried it yet - do
Merry Christmas Everyone
56 • Quake (by Leo on 2004-12-28 17:25:55 GMT)
Dear All
I just wanted to express my condolences to the victims of the horrible quake and floodings. I know this is off-topic, but some of the readers of this page might live in the affected areas.
All the best,
Leo
57 • Re: Conectiva - most overlooked distro? (by Ariszló at 2004-12-28 20:53:49 GMT)
I agree that Conectiva would deserve to be among the top ten distributions for several reasons, including its richness, stability, unrivalled beauty, the Crystal icon set and apt-rpm.
My own subjective top ten in alphabetical order would be:
Conectiva: http://distrowatch.com/conectiva
Debian: http://distrowatch.com/debian
Fedora: http://distrowatch.com/fedora
Gentoo: http://distrowatch.com/gentoo
Knoppix: http://distrowatch.com/knoppix
Mandrake: http://distrowatch.com/mandrake
Munjoy: http://distrowatch.com/munjoy
Novell: http://distrowatch.com/novell
Slackware: http://distrowatch.com/slackware
Yoper: http://distrowatch.com/yoper
58 • PCLinuxOS (by Mr. Nitpicky on 2004-12-29 21:02:57 GMT)
Actually, by virtue of the fact that PCLinuxOS includes nVidia drivers, Java, MP3 codecs, etc., it is not "free in every sense of the word." But, it IS freely distributed and redistributable. The fact that so much non-free software is included can be seen as an advantage, since so many things work "out of the box." Highly recommended! (And, don't forget to drop a bit of cash in the PCLOS fund, if you like it.)
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| • Issue 1135 (2025-08-18): Debian 13, Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, KDE gets advanced Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tools |
| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life |
| • Issue 1129 (2025-07-07): GLF OS Omnislash, the worst Linux distro, Alpine introduces Wayback, Fedora drops plans to stop i686 support, AlmaLinux builds EPEL repository for older CPUs, Ubuntu dropping existing RISC-V device support, Rhino partners with UBports, PCLinuxOS recovering from website outage |
| • Issue 1128 (2025-06-30): AxOS 25.06, AlmaLinux OS 10.0, transferring Flaptak bundles to off-line computers, Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora considers dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to AppArmor |
| • Issue 1127 (2025-06-23): LastOSLinux 2025-05-25, most unique Linux distro, Haiku stabilises, KDE publishes Plasma 6.4, Arch splits Plasma packages, Slackware infrastructure migrating |
| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
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