Idea on which Distros to support

[Marc Lijour]

On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:22, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Mandriva 2006 looks like a very good distro. It just came out and Club members 
(sponsors) can download it. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it as a DVD in 
a Linux Mag issue soon.

> >> 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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