A really neat graphic I randomly stumbled across on Wikipedia.

No idea if this is accurate but it’s fascinating to see all these distros laid out this way.

Seems to live here now: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/tree/main

Where do you live in this family tree?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    5·
    1 year ago

    failed to install Debian Woody and SUSE in early naughts – finally succeeded with a Stage 1 Gentoo install (yay for me?) – a long sabbatical from Linux, back into the groove with Pop!_OS for a while, and recently replaced with Debian stable (successfully this time ;p ) – getting old enough that “bleeding edge” doesn’t hold any appeal any more, “boring” is far more interesting

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Debian stable with some stuff installed in containers and some as flatpak is a sleeper. It may just be the best most Rick solid combination out there.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I use this chart when teaching Linux. I think it does a great job of showing Linux’s “bazaar” vs. Windows’ “cathedral”.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I mean, at this point it’s probably got a much Gentoo left in it as Steam OS has Arch.

  • TechAdmin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I started with Slackware around 1997 because I needed a free C compiler plus all I had were junk, hand-me-down computers. Stopped programming & using linux around 2000 and had switched back to Windows on a newly built, decent computer. From about 2000 until about 2016 I rarely used linux besides a couple routers. Raspberry pi 3 came out with built-in wifi & my dislike of Windows 10 got me back into linux for more use cases. Valve’s work on proton finally made it so I could switch to linux for most gaming & my Windows usage dropped to almost nothing. Currently using Manjaro on primary desktop and Fedora 38 on tablet with mix of distros in LXC & VMs on mini-PC w/ Proxmox VE & Synology NAS. SteamVR on linux been getting decent amount of work on it lately so once it gets stable I’ll have one less reason to need Windows.

  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just noticed Christian Edition and Muslim edition, and was puzzled…this is the best article I could find on them. I think its interesting that religious distros keep showing up, rather than just religious packages being available on package managers.

  • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    My first flavour was Red Hat back in the late 90s. It’s a shame I didn’t give it more of a go back then. Then Mint for a couple of years in the earlyish 2010s before finally settling on Arch where I’ve been for almost a decade now.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
    1·
    1 year ago

    I cut my teeth on Mandrake 7.0.

    There are many names on that list that I have tried over the years, but use Debian and openSUSE normally