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On layouts and icons

Published by Donjan on 2010-08-20 in Timeline. 3 Comments

Layouts

We’re occasionally experimenting with various layouts, for example this one. Because of the orientation it obviously needs improvements on the overlapping labels, but the fat line option offers a nice graphical cue about a distro’s “fertility”. Comments invited!

Icons

It has been technically possible to use icons instead of those dots at each distro’s starting point for a while now, yet what is missing are the icons themselves.
This means: if you, dear visitor, by any chance happen to know about a collection of a few hundred distro icons in SVG or PNG, uniformly layouted, we’d be very obliged to have a share.
You can also hand in only a few* and the GLDT may start having icons as soon as there’s a substantial portion – somewhere around 200 would be awesome for now.

* The exact format, layout, dimensions, etc. can be fixed as soon as we have a large enough set with a common denominator.

One more thing

Help is always welcome: if you happen to know that nice, overlooked, historically interesting distro, go ahead and submit it!
We’re also grateful for any spotted errors (especially those exact start/stop/fork dates sometimes only known to the founding developers themselves), which you can report via the same form.

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.8

Published by Andreas on 2010-08-08 in Timeline. 5 Comments

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  • Discontinued distros: Aurora (merged into Fedora)
  • Added 11 distros (total 280): Android, Aurora OS, BlankOn, Buhawi, Deepin, Estrella Roja, Hedinux, Qomo, Quantian, UltraPenguin, Zeroshell
  • Fixed: Maemo (duplicate)
  • Contributors: Alexander Sambler, Antonio Engels, chenjie, Rahman Yusri Aftian and Vassily Minaev
  • Works best with gnuclad 0.2.2

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.7

Published by Andreas on 2010-07-03 in Timeline. 4 Comments

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  • Added 10 distros (total 270): Canaima, Damn Vulnerable Linux, Lubuntu, Macpup, Openfiler, openmamba, SliTaz, SMS, Tiny SliTaz, QiLinux
  • Fixed: GoblinX renamed to Imagineos
  • Improved infobox: bigger Tux! (with GNU)
  • Improved logos: now using icon field instead of including external images
  • Contributors: Pascal Bellard, Gardouille, Jason Porter and Flamel Canto
  • Works best with gnuclad 0.2 (experimental)

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.6

Published by Donjan on 2010-06-06 in Timeline. 0 Comments

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  • Discontinued distros: Maemo, Moblin
  • Continued: aLinux
  • Added 10 distros (total 260): HostGIS, Inquisitor, Maemo, MeeGo, MoLinux, NuTyX, Qimo, STUX, UHU, Ylmf
  • Fixed: Tiny Core (10 year facelift), KateOS (originally Slackware based)
  • Contributor: Paulo
  • Works best with gnuclad 0.2 (experimental)

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.5

Published by Andreas on 2010-05-07 in Timeline. 2 Comments

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  • Added 10 distros (total 250): ASLinux, Best, Danix, Independence, Maemo, Mamona, Midori, Moblin, Quirky, wattOS
  • Added Connectors: Debian->CrunchBang, Debian->MEPIS
  • Contributors: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen, Kevin Vesga and Jim Trocki
  • Works best with gnuclad 0.2 (experimental)

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.4

Published by Andreas on 2010-04-16 in Timeline. 0 Comments

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  • Added 10 distros (total 240): DeadCD, Dizinha, Dragora, Metamorphose, NeoDizinha, Netrunner, Omoikane (ARMA), QubesOS, Salix, VortexBox
  • Fixed: sidux (lowercase)
  • Works best with gnuclad 0.2 (experimental)

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.3

Published by Andreas on 2010-03-04 in Timeline. 0 Comments

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  • Added 12 distros (total 230): ASP, Calculate, CERN, Demolinux, Element, Epidemic, Fermi, Igelle, IPFire, Paldo, Resulinux, T2
  • Contributors: John G. Ruff, Franck Quélain, Norbert Cartagena, Luciano Andress Martini, Joko Keuschnig and René Rebe
  • Cleaned up source code of included SVG images and CSV spreasheet
  • Works best with gnuclad 0.1

GNU/Linux distro timeline 10.2

Published by Andreas on 2010-02-03 in Timeline. 0 Comments

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  • First release using gnuclad.
  • New database: CSV spreadsheet + conf file.
  • Improved SUSE derivates.
  • Added a few distros.
  • Lots of small corrections.

GNU/Linux distro timeline 9.3

Published by Andreas on 2009-03-07 in Timeline. 0 Comments

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  • Maintenance release. The timeline is kept at February as in version 9.2.
  • Lots of file/data cleanup.
  • Fixed: Arch (no direct CRUX code), Gobolinux (duplicate), ROCK (renamed from Rock, moved to summer 1998)
  • Added 1 distro (GoboLinux replacement): µClinux (one of the most wide spread embedded Linux distros)
  • Contributors: Rob Mills and dcecchin
  • Changed README and created CONTRIBUTE folder (contents: CHANGELOG, INFO, TODO, SUGGESTIONS, distribution_data.ods)

GNU/Linux distro timeline 9.2

Published by Andreas on 2009-02-12 in Timeline. 0 Comments

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  • Discontinued 15 distros: Annvix, ATmission (dormant 3+ years), Aurox, Bluewall, FoX, GNU-HALO, Edubuntu (now addon-CD), ELX, Kororaa, Kurumin, Linspire, Morphix, Sauver, Trustix, ZoneCD (might be revived based on Gentoo)
  • Continued: All others, notably the following: alinux (DistroWatch:dormant), Bioknoppix (DW:dormant), Impi (DW:discontinued, it’s not), Nitix (DW:discontinued… it’s actively maintained by IBM for Lotus Foundations), SymphonyOS (DW:dormant)
  • Revived: none (just a few control samples checked)
  • Fixed: rPath (not a RedHat fork, designed from ground up by two ex-RedHat engineers), Ututo XS, VLOS (VidaLinux)
  • Added 50 distros: Absolute, Clonezilla Live, Coyote, CrunchBang, DNALinux, Dreamlinux, Easy Peasy, Feather, Finnix, Fluxbuntu, GeeXboX, Gentoox, Gibraltar, GoblinX, GoboLinux, gOS, Granular, Hikarunix, K12, Kaella, Kalango, Kiwi, LEAF, Linpus, MOPSLinux, Musix, NepaLinux, Nitix, OpenGEU, Papug, ParallelKnoppix, PelicanHPC, Pentoo, Poseidon, PureOS, SAM, Slackintosh, Slamd64, SLAMPP, Tinfoil Hat, TinyMe, Topologilinux, Trisquel, Tuquito, U-lite, Ututo-e, Simplis, Vine, Wolvix, ZevenOS
  • Contributors: Jake Neumann, Azure Cerulean, David Hill, Norbert Cartagena, Líus Fontenelle Carneiro, guillaume and Meric B. Mara
  • Changed README and created CONTRIBUTE file.