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We've compiled a list of 6 free and paid alternatives to DistroWatch. The primary competitors include Worldometers, Distro Picker. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between DistroWatch and Distro Chooser, Lius, The LiveCD List. Also you can look at other similar options here: Online Services.


Worldometers is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the...

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Distro Chooser
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Lius
Free Open Source

Lius counts the number of Linux users in the world.

Donation-based and video-focused directory of Linux distributions

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

DistroWatch Video and Screenshots

DistroWatch Overview

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
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.

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