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Red Hat

How come Red Hat is not here but Fedora is here? I would add some of th info, but I can't enter the tech info so I'm not spoiling other people's good work...

It's just a list - most of the "tech info" here is propagandist (--------) that should be replaced by hard facts with Comparison of Linux distributions anyways. Therefore, just add it yourself. ¦ Reisio 09:44, 2005 August 18 (UTC)

It's mentioned there. Look above commercial distributions. Jaalto 2005-11-24

(REDHAT is pay only, non-GNU, I would dare to say they are no longer a Linux Distro as a (wiki) dictionary defines it.)

Discontinued, now for sale

monomaxos.com was formerly a porn site, now for sale. This Ubuntu flavour is discontinued. Please remove link. --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.61.62.243 (talk • contribs) 22 feb 2020 02:00 (UTC)

is linux monolithic ?

linux is not monolithic it's modular it was one of the first popular modular kernels; which can be micro if the user desires. mach uses different file structs to talk to its parts and is written by different people - is it definitely different but not by much if talking about modularity alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.207.23 (talk • contribs) 4 apr 2016 14:43 (UTC)

Azure Linux

Would Azure Linux go in the "Other" table? Azure Linux is used as the base container operating system for Microsoft Azure services. Azure Linux is open-source and free. Catrachos (talk) 15:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Updating the Distro Timeline

The timeline is old and should be updated. However, I have updated the image on the French Wikipedia which has its own file, and now the English Wikipedia doesn't let me update the file to the same file. So, what do we do?

Merge with the French image ? I started a discussion here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg#Merging_with_File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
Delete the French image and use this image on the French Wikipedia ?

Any help on doing one of the two things here is appreciated, as I am pretty much a newbie to image management on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. HGStyleOfficiel (talk) 10:36, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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-==Chinese distribution==
-Where is the Chinese backed distribution? <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Ceros|Ceros]] ([[User talk:Ceros|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ceros|contribs]]) 29 okt 2006 04:48‎ (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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 * It's mentioned there. Look above commercial distributions.  [[User:Jaalto|Jaalto]] 2005-11-24
+(REDHAT is pay only, non-GNU, I would dare to say they are no longer a Linux Distro as a (wiki) dictionary defines it.)
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 linux is not monolithic it's modular it was one of the first popular modular kernels; which can be micro if the user desires.  mach uses different file structs to talk to its parts and is written by different people - is it definitely different but not by much if talking about modularity alone. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:72.219.207.23|72.219.207.23]] ([[User talk:72.219.207.23#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/72.219.207.23|contribs]]) 4 apr 2016 14:43 (UTC)</small>
-== Porteus ==
+== Azure Linux ==
-What does it mean "based on Sector"? What is Sector? (It is written with a capital "S"). There is no reference.
-[[User:George Rodney Maruri Game|George Rodney Maruri Game]] ([[User talk:George Rodney Maruri Game|talk]]) 05:14, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
+Would Azure Linux go in the "Other" table? Azure Linux is used as the base container operating system for Microsoft Azure services. Azure Linux is open-source and free. [[User:Catrachos|Catrachos]] ([[User talk:Catrachos|talk]]) 15:36, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
-== Template:Linux distributions ==
-[[:Template:Linux distributions]] should be mostly [[Isomorphic]], similar in structure, to [[List of Linux distributions]]. Please help fix [[:Template:Linux distributions]] .... [[User:0mtwb9gd5wx|0mtwb9gd5wx]] ([[User talk:0mtwb9gd5wx|talk]]) 19:45, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
-== Comparison of Linux distributions ==
+== Updating the Distro Timeline ==
-[[Comparison of Linux distributions]] needs table elements filled in. .... [[User:0mtwb9gd5wx|0mtwb9gd5wx]] ([[User talk:0mtwb9gd5wx|talk]]) 02:54, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
+The timeline is old and should be updated. However, I have updated the image on the French Wikipedia which has its own file, and now the English Wikipedia doesn't let me update the file to the same file. So, what do we do?
-== Why we are not allowed to write about the blackPanther OS on the Wikipedia? ==
+# Merge with the French image ? I started a discussion here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg#Merging_with_File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
-The blackPanther OS is a '''20 years old''' distro still under active developement. It is older than the popular Ubuntu and its forks! And it is not a fork of something else, an independent developement with several unique features. The blackPanther OS is a popular distro in its home country (Hungary).
+# Delete the French image and use this image on the French Wikipedia ?
-There were '''5 attempts''' to create an English article about the '''blackPanther OS''', all of them was deleted by different reasons. The last reason was that there are no another articles which refer to this distro. And of course it is not allowed to refer anywhere to this distro. If somebody try that always come somebody who undo that edit because there is no article about this distro. So it is an infinite loop, impossible to write about this distro. I feel that it is just simply a discrimination because it is not a new Ubuntu fork what you like... [[User:Ncr0drX|Ncr0drX]] ([[User talk:Ncr0drX|talk]]) 17:56, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
+Any help on doing one of the two things here is appreciated, as I am pretty much a newbie to image management on Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons. [[User:HGStyleOfficiel|HGStyleOfficiel]] ([[User talk:HGStyleOfficiel|talk]]) 10:36, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
-:It was deleted because of a lack of required reliable sources - that is, academic journals, major newspapers, etc. Links from other Wikipedia pages have absolutely no bearing on this. You are wasting your time if you think adding this topic to Wikipedia lists is going to allow you to write an article on it. - [[User:MrOllie|MrOllie]] ([[User talk:MrOllie|talk]]) 18:05, 24 September 2021 (UTC)