For those who don't want to read/load N pages: 1. Debian - The grand-daddy of some of the other distros here, and still going strong 2. Fedora - The community

For those who don't want to read/load N pages: 1. Debian - The grand-daddy of some of the other distros here, and still going strong 2. Fedora - The community distro from Red Hat 3. OpenSUSE - Novell's completely open Linux distro 4. Mandriva - The golden child is making a comeback 5. Ubuntu - The most popular distro of all time... So far 6. Gentoo - The DIY distribution especially for those who want to understand and define how it works 7. DSL - A tiny distro for older machines 8. Arch Linux - A self-assembly distro for power users 9. CentOS - The community variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. PCLinuxOS - Could this be an Ubuntu-beater in 2008? 11. Sabayon - A binary distro built with Gentoo 12. KNOPPIX - The king of the Live CDs is still going strong 13. Zenwalk - A lightweight Slackware derivative ideal for reinvigorating older, more limited computers 14. Slackware - Back to basics with the oldest of the surviving distros