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The best distributions are the distributions which have a large developer base, good tools (bug trackers, QA, etc), are desktop agnostic, and have been alive fo
by tenfingers 13y ago
The best distributions are the distributions which have a large developer base, good tools (bug trackers, QA, etc), are desktop agnostic, and have been alive for several years.
The list much has been pretty much the same for more than a decade now: openSuse, fedora, debian, arch, gentoo.
Everything else is derivative, where the "added value" is often a default theme and a list of default applications.
- qznc 13y agoI think Mint/Korora add value for the pragmatics, who want Skype, Adobe Reader, etc available on Ubuntu/Fedora.
- sp332 13y agoDebian isn't necessarily better than Linux Mint just because Mint is a "derivative". The reason all these derivatives exist is to focus on a goal the original distro didn't, like a specific desktop.