Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 21, 2005 07:56 AM
Large chunk is the live cd market. Mainly build from Debian. Ie Debian matains the code KANOTIX Gnoppix and so on are all Debian.
Also there are many distros that are just moded Debains or other distros from the core. So only about 6 distros have to completely support them selfs.
Ie Fedora/redhat Mandrake Suse Debian Gentoo and the oldest Slackware.
linux/unix had a desktop war and we had over 100 desktop enviorments. The most powerful lived. Some of the loses of the war are still kicking around ie enlightment. Note we only have 2 majors now with another 8 fighting to stay in the game ie will die out even more yet.
Basicly we are in a installer war and live cd war. Everyone geting to a fight to create the best installer or live cd. I expect live cd war not to stop any time soon ie each live cd has a place. But the installer war sould die off as distros projects merge/die There is only so much you can do with installers and tweeking.
Note even slackware the god dam rattle snake distro(yep it will sneek up and bite you if it gets a chance from missing installing something) has a simple installer called vector linux. Hmm it is listed at least twice once user unfriendly once user friendly.
I would say most likely another 12 months until the end of the installer war. Then we start sinking back to the core distros once again.
Most likely over 200 are live cds or distros directly made from another distro. So the task is not getting harder but simpler more developers finding and fixing faults.
Almost no one is starting out from scratch. And if the did they would most like to be slayed in under 6 months due to not being able to support self and/or provide enough software. Linux distros are huge on the number of programs they have to support.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 21, 2005 07:56 AMAlso there are many distros that are just moded Debains or other distros from the core. So only about 6 distros have to completely support them selfs.
Ie Fedora/redhat Mandrake Suse Debian Gentoo and the oldest Slackware.
linux/unix had a desktop war and we had over 100 desktop enviorments. The most powerful lived. Some of the loses of the war are still kicking around ie enlightment. Note we only have 2 majors now with another 8 fighting to stay in the game ie will die out even more yet.
Basicly we are in a installer war and live cd war. Everyone geting to a fight to create the best installer or live cd. I expect live cd war not to stop any time soon ie each live cd has a place. But the installer war sould die off as distros projects merge/die There is only so much you can do with installers and tweeking.
Note even slackware the god dam rattle snake distro(yep it will sneek up and bite you if it gets a chance from missing installing something) has a simple installer called vector linux. Hmm it is listed at least twice once user unfriendly once user friendly.
I would say most likely another 12 months until the end of the installer war. Then we start sinking back to the core distros once again.
Most likely over 200 are live cds or distros directly made from another distro. So the task is not getting harder but simpler more developers finding and fixing faults.
Almost no one is starting out from scratch. And if the did they would most like to be slayed in under 6 months due to not being able to support self and/or provide enough software. Linux distros are huge on the number of programs they have to support.
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