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  • Linux Distros timeline and relations

    Linux Distros timeline and relations

    This MASSIVE graphic shows ALL Linux distros ever created, forked, developed and maintained in a single timeline (since 1992 to present). This will amaze you in the amount of distros available at the moment (360 and counting), and once again showing the world of choice that Linux is.

    The distro that has the most derivative distros is Debian, including ubuntu derivatives.

    The people making this timeline have been around for quite some time, hats off to them, really impressive work, you can check their website here.

    Also one thing that caught my attention is the amount of Ubuntu Derivatives available, being Ubuntu a relatively new distro compared to others.

    You will discover tons of stuff on the Linux World just by taking a quick look at the graphic, for example, I bet you didn’t know when your favorite distro started? or If your distro turned out to be a fork of a now dead one because all developers moved to a new one?

    Enjoy!

    Linux Distro Timeline
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  • Chakra Linux – KdeMod and ArchLinux based distribution

    The chakra-project is an Arch Linux based distribution with a tweaked kde environment. KDE is a very cool desktop environment but its very heavy on system resources, what chakra developers are doing is tuning this desktop environment to provide a faster experience to the use, pair that with the ROCK-SOLID ArchLinux backend and you have one of the best Linux distributions available to date.

    They provide a hassle free live cd that anyone can try, and best of all, ITS FREE!!!

    Another plus side, its that the Arch Linux community is very savvy Linux-wise and will help you in everything they can I you have a problem.

    you can it even install chakra in an USB drive and have your operating system follow you wherever you go!

    Here is a screenshot of the live cd installer: live cd

    And to wrap it up, the also made some very nice applications to control your system, shaman and arxin. The first one is a frontend for “pacman” the software installer and application maintainer for arch linux, the second one is a tool for tweaking many advanced system settings (like your boot parameters) in an easy way.

    Here is a screenshot so you can see how it looks once installed, pretty sleek if you ask me.

    kde430-desktop

    So go ahead and give it a try you wont regret it.

    Official Chakra Website