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Because popularity of various distros seems such a hot topic "in these parts", I thought I'd share an article from zdnet. The author offers some insights folks rarely (if ever) discuss when focusing on Distrowatch ratings:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-the ... -them-all/
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Who ever wrote that article made me throw up!
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Mauser wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:09 am Who ever wrote that article made me throw up!
Does that mean you did not like it? :p
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Mauser wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:09 am Who ever wrote that article made me throw up!
Hardly surprising. ZDNET is the epitome of a Microsoft sycophant and any articles it publishes on the other platforms are always written in the vaguest and most superficial terms.
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I daresay that the Debian mothership is the probably the most influential given the cloud of distributions that it has spawned - antiX, MX, Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix, SteamOS, ElementaryOS, Raspbian , and dozens more. The fact that Google is now letting newer Chromebooks install packages from debian stable into ChromeOS is indicative of that.
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timkb4cq wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:23 am I daresay that the Debian mothership is the probably the most influential given the cloud of distributions that it has spawned - antiX, MX, Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix, SteamOS, ElementaryOS, Raspbian , and dozens more. The fact that Google is now letting newer Chromebooks install packages from debian stable into ChromeOS is indicative of that.
I agree, I wonder how the other world RedHat/Fedora is going to fare under IBM and under the competition pressure from Ubuntu...
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Adrian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:26 am I agree, I wonder how the other world RedHat/Fedora is going to fare under IBM and under the competition pressure from Ubuntu...
I have wondered the same thing. I tend to think that with the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS eco-system IBM will do very well in the data center business. It makes me wonder if Ubuntu, once they go public, won't be a target of Dell or Amazon (competition being what it is).
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manyroads wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:11 pm
Adrian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:26 am I agree, I wonder how the other world RedHat/Fedora is going to fare under IBM and under the competition pressure from Ubuntu...
I have wondered the same thing. I tend to think that with the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS eco-system IBM will do very well in the data center business. It makes me wonder if Ubuntu, once they go public, won't be a target of Dell or Amazon (competition being what it is).
I think that I'd throw HP into the mix as well. An Ubuntu acquisition could be a great compliment to their existing Unix business.
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manyroads wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:11 pm
Adrian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:26 am I agree, I wonder how the other world RedHat/Fedora is going to fare under IBM and under the competition pressure from Ubuntu...
I have wondered the same thing. I tend to think that with the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS eco-system IBM will do very well in the data center business. It makes me wonder if Ubuntu, once they go public, won't be a target of Dell or Amazon (competition being what it is).
The funny thing is, Amazon Linux in AWS is RH-based. I wonder if that changes at some future time.
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Amazon Linux in AWS is RH-based.
The details of its without-systemd.org listing are less specific b/c I hadn't been able to find a verbatim "based on RHEL"

Amazon Linux AMI ~~ ref: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/faqs/ ~~ version 2 now includes systemd service and systems manager

Quickly checking again today, I still found no explicit "based on" mentioning RHEL, but I did notice the following:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/late ... asics.html

[ec2-user ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="2"
PRETTY_NAME="Amazon Linux 2"
ANSI_COLOR="0;33"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:amazon:amazon_linux:2"
HOME_URL="https://amazonlinux.com/"
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