Idea on which Distros to support

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  I have been working on testing my backup program on different distributions 
> (so far Debian, Fedora Core and today SUSE) and I wanted advice on which 
> distributions I should test next.
>
>  So, what are the main distributions out there or what distribution do you 
> think is worth the time to test against (there are so many I couldn't test 
> them all).
>
>  I have Mandrake,

     Now called Mandriva.

> Slackware and Ubuntu up next. If anyone knows of a list of 
> Linux distributions by popularity that would also be a great help.

     Gentoo seems popular.

     See <http://distrowatch.com/> for more info and rankings.

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