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Distributions
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[URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"]Ubuntu Linux[/URL]
[QUOTE]What was the reason for Ubuntu's stunning success? Firstly, the project was created by Mark Shuttleworth, a charismatic South African multimillionaire, a former Debian developer and the world's second space tourist, whose company, the Isle of Man-based Canonical Ltd, is currently financing the project. Secondly, Ubuntu had learnt from the mistakes of other similar projects and avoided them from the start - it created an excellent web-based infrastructure with a Wiki-style documentation, creative bug-reporting facility, and professional approach to the end users. And thirdly, thanks to its wealthy founder, Ubuntu has been able to ship free CDs to all interested users, thus contributing to the rapid spread of the distribution.
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[URL="http://www.archlinux.org/"]Arch Linux[/URL][QUOTE]The KISS (keep it simple, stupid) philosophy of Arch Linux was devised in around the year 2002 by Judd Vinet, a Canadian computer science graduate who launched the distribution in the same year. For several years it lived as a marginal project designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users and only shot to stardom when it began promoting itself as a "rolling-release" distribution that only needs to be installed once and which is then kept up-to-date thanks to its powerful package manager and an always fresh software repository. As a result, Arch Linux "releases" are few and far between and are now limited to a basic installation CD that is issued only when considerable changes in the base system warrant a new install media.
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[URL="http://fedoraproject.org/"]Fedora[/URL]
[QUOTE]Although Fedora's direction is still largely controlled by Red Hat, Inc. and the product is sometimes seen -- rightly or wrongly -- as a test bed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there is no denying that Fedora is one of the most innovative distributions available today. Its contributions to the Linux kernel, glibc and GCC are well-known and its more recent integration of SELinux functionality, virtualisation technologies, Systemd service manager, cutting-edge journaled file systems, and other enterprise-level features are much appreciated among the company's customers. On a negative side, Fedora still lacks a clear desktop-oriented strategy that would make the product easier to use for those beyond the "Linux hobbyist" target.
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[URL="http://www.debian.org/"]Debian Linux[/URL]
[QUOTE]The success of Debian GNU/Linux can be illustrated by the following numbers. It is developed by over 1,000 volunteer developers, its software repositories contain more than 20,000 packages (compiled for 11 processor architectures), and it is responsible for inspiring over 120 Debian-based distributions and live CDs. These figures are unmatched by any other Linux-based operating system. The actual development of Debian takes place in three main branches (or four if one includes the bleeding-edge "experimental" branch) of increasing levels of stability: "unstable" (also known as "sid"), "testing" and "stable". This progressive integration and stabilisation of packages and features, together with the project's well-established quality control mechanisms, has earned Debian its reputation of being one of the best-tested and most bug-free distributions available today.
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[URL="http://www.opensuse.org/en/"]OpenSUSE[/URL]
[QUOTE]Today, openSUSE has a large following of satisfied users. The principal reason for openSUSE getting high marks from its users are pleasant and polished desktop environments (KDE and GNOME), excellent system administration utility (YaST), and, for those who buy the boxed edition, some of the best printed documentation available with any distribution. However, the infamous deal between Novell and Microsoft, which apparently concedes to Microsoft's argument that it has intellectual property rights over Linux, has resulted in a string of condemnation by many Linux personalities and has prompted some users to switch distributions. Although Novell has downplayed the deal and Microsoft has yet to exercise any rights, this issue remains a thorn in the side of the otherwise very community-friendly Linux company.
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Oh, and don't install Gentoo.
(Descriptions shamelessly stolen from [URL="http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major"]DistroWatch.com[/URL])
Desktop Environments
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[URL="http://www.gnome.org/"]GNOME 3[/URL]
[QUOTE]GNOME's new desktop takes elegance to a new level. We've swept away the clutter and made a simple and easy-to-use desktop, and we've made this the most beautiful GNOME desktop ever, with a new visual theme, a refined new font and carefully crafted animations.
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[URL="http://www.kde.org/"]KDE 4[/URL]
[QUOTE]Plasma Desktop offers a beautiful looking desktop that takes complete advantage of modern computing technology. Through the use of visual effects and scalable graphics, the desktop experience is not only smooth but also pleasant to the eye. The looks of Plasma Desktop not only provide beauty, they are also used to support and improve your computer activities effectively, without being distracting.
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[URL="http://www.xfce.org/"]Xfce 4[/URL]
[QUOTE]Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
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[URL="http://lxde.org/"]LXDE[/URL]
[QUOTE]The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Maintained by an international community of developers, it comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard short cuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE uses less CPU and less RAM than other environments. It is especially designed for cloud computers with low hardware specifications, such as netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. LXDE can be installed on many Linux distributions including Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. It is the standard for Knoppix and lubuntu. LXDE also runs on OpenSolaris and BSD. LXDE provides a fast desktop experience; connecting easily with applications in the cloud. LXDE supports a wealth of programs that can be installed locally with Linux systems. The source code of LXDE is licensed partly under the terms of the GNU General Public License and partly under the LGPL.[/QUOTE]
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[URL="http://mate-desktop.org/"]MATE[/URL]
[QUOTE]MATE is a fork of Gnome 2.
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[URL="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/"]Cinnamon[/URL]
[QUOTE]Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell, initially developed by Linux Mint. It attempts to provide a more traditional user environment based on the desktop metaphor, like GNOME 2. Cinnamon uses Muffin, a fork of the GNOME 3 window manager Mutter, as its window manager from Cinnamon 1.2 onwards.
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[URL="http://www.enlightenment.org/"]Enlightenment 17[/URL]
[QUOTE]Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).[/QUOTE]
(Descriptions shamelessly stolen from their official websites unless alternate source is given)
(NOTE: OP is very much a work in progress; any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!)
OpenSUSE distro?
Also links
also, awesome-wm and dwm are very good
You forgot to add Cinnamon and E17 to the DE list.
Oh and maybe a little bit of something about how Unity sucks.
[QUOTE=Asgard;36686109]Oh and maybe a little bit of something about how Unity sucks.[/QUOTE]
Although Unity has gotten quite a bit of buzz, it has also brought along a lot of new users. So like it or not, it has it's moments.
also, where is my gentoo?
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36686532]also, where is my gentoo?[/QUOTE]
For some reason, distrowatch doesn't label it as a major distro which is weird because I've heard of Gentoo before distros like PCLinuxOS and Mageia which are on the list.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;36686532]also, where is my gentoo?[/QUOTE]
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