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Fight! linuxiso.org vs. distrowatch.com

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linuxiso.org vs. distrowatch.com



http://linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/stateandhistoryoflinuxiso.html

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LinuxIS😵rg was originally intended to host the very latest and greatest ISOs of each distrobution out there. We would put the latest packages in each ISO so they would be even newer than the (at the time) semi occational updates of the distros. (Boy were we niave.) LinuxResource.org would be just as the name implies. A good site for Linux resources. Troubleshooting, news, forums; a Linux community. We had created a great dynamic PHP/MySQL/Apache backend for storing all this stuff. Things seemed promising.

But then things went sour. The parent company decided that Linux wasn't making that big increase in stock value that they wanted and started getting the bills for the several terrabytes of data transfered from the LinuxIS😵rg ftp servers. So they pulled the plug. That's when a small group of us (Rick, Carlie, and I) decided that we didn't want those projects to die and managed to get LinuxIS😵rg domain away from them. Not too long after that, there was resignations, and pink slips and most of the little ISP split up to go their seperate ways.
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What is DistroWatch?

The DistroWatch web site was first published on 31 May 2001. The concept started as a very simple table comprising of 5 major distributions and the chart only compared a few features (price, version, release date) and a few package versions (Kernel, KDE, Gnome, XFree86, Apache). Trying to make it slightly more comprehensive and useful (and failing to find anything similar and up-to-date on the Internet), I have kept adding more distributions, features and packages until the table reached fairly reasonable state in terms of information provided. At that stage, I decided to share the table with the Linux community worldwide and moved it from a spreadsheet into an HTML document. The page was first mentioned on LinuxToday and on many other sites around the world. Besides visitors, the site has also received a lot of feedback; what follows below is my attempt to answer some of the questions and reply to suggestions.
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