Fedora on DistroWatch

[Erikina]

DistroWatch is a website that provides information about different linux distros. You can look up any distro, and see what packages it ships with. It also ranks disto's on popularity (solely based on amount of unique people that visit the different distro pages).

Due to Fedora 9's release, Fedora 9 is currently ranked number 1 (over the last 7 days). I guess a lot of people want to see if fedora *really* did ship with a development version of xorg ;D

Anyway. If you want to keep up to date with what version of package Fedora has (including rawhide). And simultaneously get a few more page hits for Fedora you might want to homepage this. (In firefox, you can have more than 1 bookmark, just separate them with a pipe | example (http://google.com|http://otherdomain.com) and it'll open in a new tab.


http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora

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Wayne

[JN4OldSchool]

I thought Ubuntu was winning?

And I can see this thread ending up just like this one:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...ht=distrowatch

Yawn......

Wayne

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by Erikina

Anyway. If you want to keep up to date with what version of package Fedora has (including rawhide). And simultaneously get a few more page hits for Fedora you might want to homepage this. (In firefox, you can have more than 1 bookmark, just separate them with a pipe | example (http://google.com|http://otherdomain.com) and it'll open in a new tab.


http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora

Here's a thought: maybe tactics like this are why the stats on Distrowatch don't mean jack squat. Not to mention I use yum to track what packages are in the repos and installed on my Fedora boxes.

Considering I open up a browser several times a day, maybe I should do this with an obscure, rarely-used distro just to mess with it.

I don't mean to speak for others on the forum here, but the topic has come up here before and I believe the consensus was something like "who cares?"

EDIT: Distrowatch provides some great services. I go there to check release dates quite often. But Linux use isn't really about which distro is "winning." Just remember the Distro Wars are peace, and peace is the Distro Wars.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Erikina

DistroWatch is a website that provides information about different linux distros. You can look up any distro, and see what packages it ships with. It also ranks disto's on popularity (solely based on amount of unique people that visit the different distro pages).

Due to Fedora 9's release, Fedora 9 is currently ranked number 1 (over the last 7 days). I guess a lot of people want to see if fedora *really* did ship with a development version of xorg ;D

Anyway. If you want to keep up to date with what version of package Fedora has (including rawhide). And simultaneously get a few more page hits for Fedora you might want to homepage this. (In firefox, you can have more than 1 bookmark, just separate them with a pipe | example (http://google.com|http://otherdomain.com) and it'll open in a new tab.


http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora

Uhm ... you really are new to the forum, aren't you?! (Distrowatch is kind of notorious around here.)

Anyway, welcome aboard, Erikina.

And before we get too much farther down the road, please have a look at this thread. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=183405


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Wayne

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by tjvanwyk

Here's a thought: maybe tactics like this are why the stats on Distrowatch don't mean jack squat. Not to mention I use yum to track what packages are in the repos and installed on my Fedora boxes.

Considering I open up a browser several times a day, maybe I should do this with an obscure, rarely-used distro just to mess with it.

I don't mean to speak for others on the forum here, but the topic has come up here before and I believe the consensus was something like "who cares?"

EDIT: Distrowatch provides some great services. I go there to check release dates quite often. But Linux use isn't really about which distro is winning.

There is a great idea! Let's all pick a super obscure distro and we can all boost its ratings! That'll mess with their minds!

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

There is a great idea! Let's all pick a super obscure distro and we can all boost its ratings! That'll mess with their minds!

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wazobia
"Wazobia" sounds fun. I set it as a home page.

Reminds me of April 1st when Distrowatch flipped it so that the distro in last place appeared first. I'm sure more than a few Ubuntu users got carpel tunnel that day.

[Dan]

Puppy! Yeah! That's the ticket! Everybody likes to pet puppies! Let's all go peddle the pooch!

This one has put me in the mood for a pastrami sandwich, with tons of mustard

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=deli

Wayne

[JN4OldSchool]

wonder how I could write a script to get my browser to open then close the Wazobia link? Man, they will wake up to find their distro climbed to the number four spot and climbing! What an ego boost, all those Nigerians running around "we beating Ubuntu!"

[forkbomb]

Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

wonder how I could write a script to get my browser to open then close the Wazobia link? Man, they will wake up to find their distro climbed to the number four spot and climbing! What an ego boost, all those Nigerians running around "we beating Ubuntu!"

You could write a infinite-looped bash script to repeatedly open up Firefox, wait a bit, and then kill firefox:

#!/bin/bash
# script to be run while sleeping!
while [ 1 ]
do
firefox &
sleep 10
pkill firefox
done

I think that would work...

How to stop the loop? I dunno. Kill bash?

[bob]

Oh you evil people! I was all set to download the Wazobia Live CD, but now I'm getting a 404 on the dl site. You've gone and killed a distro; hope you're all happy now . Looks like I can't even buy a copy until the 'construction' is over on the site. Sad, very, very sad.

Umm, it's it's a Nigerian distro, shouldn't that be 419?

Wayne