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Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 11.4 by Michael Shigorin

Michael Shigorin — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:58:47 +0000

ALT Linux looks a bit lone but due to its highly developed and public build infrastructure it has always had derivatives:
- Inquisitor was long based on ALT but “rebased” to Debian later;
- Optifacio ApplianceWare was being developed in Minsk, Belarus;
- Clustrx HPC OS was forked for top500 hackery;
- Seiros PBX competed with trixbox in Russia;
- Simply Linux (XFCE desktop) has rather merged back since.

There was even one “raider” fork but I’ll not name it.

Thanks for the huge and beautiful work!

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.02 by Donjan

Donjan — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:23:28 +0000

@foo: See for example here.

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.02 by foo

foo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:18:09 +0000

@donjan
On your chart, Ubuntu is shown –erroneously– as *parent* of CrunchBang;
CrunchBang *should* be connected and shown as direct child of Debian.

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.02 by Donjan

Donjan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:54:09 +0000

@foo:
Yes, this is represented by the connector in 2010.

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.02 by foo

foo — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:31:00 +0000

AFAIK CrunchBang http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/about
is based on Debian, and not on Ubuntu.

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.02 by Donjan

Donjan — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:39:49 +0000

@Diego:
Ututo has been based on Gentoo since 2002, as is displayed by a (admittedly somewhat hard to see) connector. If you have any evidence of Ututo being an Enoch fork, we’d be glad to include it!

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.02 by Diego

Diego — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:41:18 +0000

Actually, Ututo was originally based in Gentoo (ref: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/4321, http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ututo).

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.01 by Las distribuciones GNU/Linux a final de 2011 « Jvare Blog

Las distribuciones GNU/Linux a final de 2011 « Jvare Blog — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:54:11 +0000

[...] He visto el post de La Ventana Muerta sobre la evolución de las distribuciones Linux a lo largo de la historia y he encontrado otro gráfico, realizado por Altuzar, en donde el tamaño de las letras del nombre de las distribuciones, está relacionado con su popularidad en Distrowatch, y está realizado sobre la versión 12.1 de GLDT. [...]

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.01 by Donjan

Donjan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:29:13 +0000

@mar04:
Thanks, though a tad more precision wouldn’t hurt (links, announcements… stuff we have to find anyway if we want to end the line… nevermind, I’ve looked for the last developer activity in their translated forum)

@Neschur:
Thanks!

@Altuzar:

@Mike:
Minix is not a GNU/Linux distribution.

@Arne Babenhauserheide:
Exherbo is influenced by Gentoo, but not a derivative. This is modeled by the very thin (hardly visible because of the colour) connector between the two.

@Mark Holmquist:
Yes, Ututo has been Gentoo-based since early 2002. Again this is modeled by a connector, though Gentoo’s colour makes it somewhat camouflaged

Comment on GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.01 by Mark Holmquist

Mark Holmquist — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:32:31 +0000

http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

According to the above, Ututo is based on Gentoo–just FYI. Somewhat important, actually, considering that no other Gentoo-based distributions are fully free software (on the list above).

Of course, my luck, it’s focused on Spanish speakers.