Idea on which Distros to support

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 16 00:22:36 UTC 2005


Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 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.

Un, but I don't seem to be able to download Mandriva (it seems to be for 
sale only now). I found Mandrake 10.1 (not sure how much has changed) on 
linuxiso.com and I will test out my program on it.

>> 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.

Gentoo has been added (downloaded and burned already) and I will test 
this week. Thanks for the link and the suggestion!

Madison

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