a few links around this general topic:
http://www.distrowatch.com/ http://www.linux.org/dist/ http://www1.ku.edu.tr/files/cit/documents/ComparisonOfLinuxDistributions.pdf http://lwn.net/Distributions/
bogi wrote:
Hi All.
Presented in our last meeting, the idea of doing Linux distro reviews and making the review in a 15 min mini-presentation, the subject of comparison-questions was raised, and i had a few to offer myself, and here is the thread to accept your suggestions and ideas about this subject.
::Q1:: Short background (history) if any of the distro.
::Q2:: The size of the distro: No. of cds, floppy disks, dvds [MegaBytes]
::Q3:: The size of a minimal installation (base) you may add different settings here, depending on availability.
::Q4:: Minimum hardware req. according to documentation.
::Q5:: List of packages available, with some detail in broad-lines. Note that some distros would have 8000 packages on the distribution media.
::Q6:: Availability of (contrib) packages.
::Q7:: Package management system: flexibility, speed, robustness, dependency handling.
::Q8:: Available security enhancing packages like nmap, snort, iptables or other firewalling, etc...
::Q9:: tarball compile settings and availability.
::Q10:: Kernel version, smp, some major package versions like kde, gnome, apache, sendmail, postfix, mysql, postgresql, etc... you get the idea, the big packages.
::Q11:: Security patches and upgrades, availability , currentness, accessability etc...
::Q12:: Initialization system and config files placement and shape, I am looking at /etc/init.d and it's friends. is it a system V or BSD style system.
::Q13:: Speed, stability.
::Q14:: Distro specific management and configuration tools, availability and description.
::Q15:: Special hardware support worth mentioning, like 3d acc gfx cards, wifi network cards, laptop stuff, flat-panel handling gigabit-ethernet , and many more hardware, i am sure you can come up with a better list then i would.
::Q16:: Availability and quality of distro specific documentation. Does is have a help system ?, apart from the documentation available with the packages and tldp, does the distro have specific documentation, does it have a help system apart from man and info ?
::Q17:: Community support availability and community size and community activity.
::Q18:: i18n availability and support.
Hoping for your input. Cheers Szemir
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