water cooler :: Which distro for you?



I know we have all seen the distro chooser website. I stumbled upon this one today, and it contains DSL unlike the other ones I had seen so I found it interesting.
http://eedok.voidofmind.com/linux/chooser.html

Sorry if you have seen this before.
Based on these results we recommend you to try(if you haven't tried it yet):
LFS

Hmm...that has been in mind, but never seriously.
DSL came in at 45%, following (in order from highest %)
LFS 90%
Gentoo 81%
Arch/EvilEntity 72%
Debian/Slackware/Vector 54%

My favorite system of the last 4 years (Suse) was listed as 36% compatable with my ideals.  The questions were a bit generalized...there are some things I don't mind being taken care of for me.
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here's how the distributions in the database match up to your choices:
Distro name Match %
Ubuntu 8/11: 72%
Mandriva 7/11: 63%
Fedora 7/11: 63%
MEPIS 6/11: 54%
SuSe 7/11: 63%
Debian 8/11: 72%
Knoppix 6/11: 54%
Gentoo 6/11: 54%
Slackware 8/11: 72%
Damn Small 9/11: 81%
Arch 7/11: 63%
Vector 9/11: 81%
Beatrix 9/11: 81%
Ark 7/11: 63%
LFS 8/11: 72%
EvilEntity 7/11: 63%

Based on these results we recommend you to try(if you haven't tried it yet):
Damn Small


First try too!

\o/

Editus:

After a little toying to get my dslness to 100%, it gives a very good little description of what DSL is...

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Your ideal distro is:

   * Built for older computers
   * Installed off of a livecd
   * Installed with everything
   * One that detects your hardware for you
   * Packed with only 1 program for each application to save space
   * Functional as a live CD
   * Lightweight and speedy
   * Binary package based
   * Free from dependancy hell
   * unlike another OS in GUI Nature


Pretty cool, eh?

-J.P.
Working it to 100%, and seeing the results listed is very close to true !

Tells the story pretty well..

73
ke4nt
First try also, and the result is... :)

Your ideal distro is:

   * Built for older computers
   * Installed with everything
   * One that detects your hardware for you
   * Packed with only 1 program for each application to save space
   * Functional as a live CD
   * Lightweight and speedy
   * Binary package based
   * Free from dependancy hell


here's how the distributions in the database match up to your choices:
Distro name Match %
Ubuntu 10/11: 90%
Mandriva 7/11: 63%
Fedora 7/11: 63%
MEPIS 8/11: 72%
SuSe 7/11: 63%
Debian 9/11: 81%
Knoppix 8/11: 72%
Gentoo 6/11: 54%
Slackware 8/11: 72%
Damn Small 11/11: 100%
Arch 7/11: 63%
Vector 9/11: 81%
Beatrix 11/11: 100%
Ark 9/11: 81%
LFS 6/11: 54%
EvilEntity 7/11: 63%

Based on these results we recommend you to try(if you haven't tried it yet):
Damn Small

Is it OK? Yes, it is!
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