The Linux Distro Timeline
I wonder how long it took to put this together. It's a nice thing to have, at any rate. The only thing that would make it better is a really, really, really huge monitor.
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Wow, my old CRT feels inadequate. I find it interesting that they didn't feel Ubuntu warranted its own "hub". I understand that Debian is its antecedent, but I feel that Ubuntu has influenced Linux in such a way that it might at least be worthy of more recognition than say Ulteo, grml, or Impi. While this is a useful guide for someone familiar with the different traits of linux distros, I think a more interesting, and far more challenging chart, would be a conceptual mapping of the various distros. You could do it like a Venn Diagram, having different areas for Enterprise, Desktop, Lightweight/live-cd, and one area for specifically FOSS distros like BLAG and OpenGEU. Of course some of that would be a matter of opinion, but it would be cool. Alas, I am not nearly motivated, or talented, enough to even begin to do that.
Such a chart is very apropos, I think, because all of these distributions depend on one another for more than mere influence. They use a common kernel, many of the same GNU tools, and most were direct forks of one another, so the family tree nature (except everybody has but one parent ...) of the chart is very telling.