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0 pointsstill_grokking2y ago0 comments

Half the Linux distris? I've once counted on Distrowatch. When you go by number of distris there it's more like 80% are Debian based.

If you go also by how much those distris are used it's even like 9x% of the stuff running out there is Debian based.

There are almost no independent distris. You have Arch, you have SUSE, you have RedHat and a few clones, you have Gentoo. But more or less everything else is Debian based.

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mongol2y ago

Do I get it right that you mean > 90 percent of distro use is Debian-based? Because that can hardly be the case

tuukkah2y ago

Ubuntu and its derivatives are included.

mongol2y ago

Yes. But Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, SLE, Arch, Alpine, Slackware, Gentoo, NixOS are not. I have a hard time to think these represent less than 10 percent all together

guerrilla2y ago

Is Ubuntu still Debian based? What's the criterion for that anyway? Just using debs?

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gwhl2y ago

And Slackware!

still_grokkingOP2y ago

There are of course some niche distris that aren't based on the "big ones".

But I'm not sure Slackware is still at this point relevant enough to be named in a row with the others I've mentioned.

Of course the sampling was subjective, and I didn't intended to marginalize any not mentioned distris. I just thought the others are too niche to be included in such kind of pick.

igetspam2y ago

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0 pointsstill_grokking2y ago0 comments

Half the Linux distris? I've once counted on Distrowatch. When you go by number of distris there it's more like 80% are Debian based.

If you go also by how much those distris are used it's even like 9x% of the stuff running out there is Debian based.

There are almost no independent distris. You have Arch, you have SUSE, you have RedHat and a few clones, you have Gentoo. But more or less everything else is Debian based.

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mongol2y ago

Do I get it right that you mean > 90 percent of distro use is Debian-based? Because that can hardly be the case

tuukkah2y ago

Ubuntu and its derivatives are included.

mongol2y ago

Yes. But Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, SLE, Arch, Alpine, Slackware, Gentoo, NixOS are not. I have a hard time to think these represent less than 10 percent all together

guerrilla2y ago

Is Ubuntu still Debian based? What's the criterion for that anyway? Just using debs?

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gwhl2y ago

And Slackware!

still_grokkingOP2y ago

There are of course some niche distris that aren't based on the "big ones".

But I'm not sure Slackware is still at this point relevant enough to be named in a row with the others I've mentioned.

Of course the sampling was subjective, and I didn't intended to marginalize any not mentioned distris. I just thought the others are too niche to be included in such kind of pick.

igetspam2y ago

I want to downvote you for sentimental reasons. I won't but I want to.

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