sempterobit
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Why so few Linux flavors on the "Download Linux" page? What criteria is used?
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If you would like more, you can find hundreds at distrowatch.com
The Boss put up most of those just after a major software revision to the site in 2017.
I added a couple more and updated some links a couple of years ago.
We don't have the time to do more.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
On the "Download Linux", at the moment, the debian link is to "Page not found".
To download debian, one can go here: https://www.debian.org/distrib/
For the centos link on that page, it takes one to an archive for centos releases which have been discontinued.
As @wizardfromoz mentioned, distrowatch is probably the site referencing the greatest number of linux distros. It also includes a page on discontinued distros which are of historical interest here:
distrowatch.com
There's also a list of distros not yet on the main lists which they call the "waiting list" which includes quite a few less well-known distros:
distrowatch.com
To download debian, one can go here: https://www.debian.org/distrib/
For the centos link on that page, it takes one to an archive for centos releases which have been discontinued.
As @wizardfromoz mentioned, distrowatch is probably the site referencing the greatest number of linux distros. It also includes a page on discontinued distros which are of historical interest here:
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
There's also a list of distros not yet on the main lists which they call the "waiting list" which includes quite a few less well-known distros:
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
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Too busy dealing with SPAM: « We don't have the time to do more. »!!
I'll look into that on the weekend.
1. Updated the Debian link
2. Updated the CentOS link
However with CentOS, I note
... and then it goes to an RHEL 9 link below that.
I am aware of the phasing out of CentOS over the last couple of years. Maybe Maarten @f33dm3bits or other can tell me if there is a more appropriate link to go to, or if it is all closed down now, we'll replace that entry with another distro.
TIA and
Avagudweegend
Wizard
The CentOS link is fine. The thing with CentOS is they went a different direction from what they originally were, from RHEL clone to up stream RHEL. That is why a lot of people have been moving to either Rocky Linux or Alma Linux. So they went from being CentOS to being CentOS Stream, but CentOS Stream is here to stay. However CentOS7 was the last CentOS in it's old form, from CentOS8 onward they have all been CentOS Stream.
