Examples of using Distrowatch in English and their translations into Russian
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DistroWatch October 2008.
The distribution is now considered"Discontinued" by DistroWatch.
It was first listed on DistroWatch on 1 June 2010.
Official website Frugalware Linux at DistroWatch.
Jesse Smith of DistroWatch reviewed the 4.0 release, Taranis, and described it as refined and dependable.
Jesse Smith reviewed NixOS 15.09 for DistroWatch Weekly.
A September 2013 DistroWatch review stated that the OpenIndiana project has"seemingly been in steady decline for the last couple of years.
In January 2013, Jesse Smith of DistroWatch reviewed Manjaro 0.8.3.
It was released on July 2012 as Cinnarch andby June 2013 it was ranked among the top 40 most popular distributions viewed at DistroWatch.
As of August 2017, Ubuntu MATE ranked at 24 on the Distrowatch 6 month page hit ranking.
It received its own DistroWatch page as a separate distribution with the release of the first Public Beta of MX-16 on November 2, 2016.
With no releases in two years,on 8 August 2011, DistroWatch classified gNewSense as"dormant.
Jesse Smith of DistroWatch notes fast bootup times which he credited to runit, but also notes that documentation and bug-testing are lacking.
Pinguy OS 18.04.1 Point Release| Pinguy OS Pinguy OS 18.04 Beta|Pinguy OS"DistroWatch. com: Pinguy OS.
Jesse Smith reviewed Chakra GNU/Linux 0.3.1 for DistroWatch Weekly: Moving on to the technology itself, Chakra is downloadable as a 686 MB ISO.
DistroWatch is a website which provides news, popularity rankings, and other general information about various Linux distributions as well as other free software/open source Unix-like operating systems such as OpenSolaris, MINIX and BSD.
Robert Rijkhoff reviewed KaOS 2017.09 for DistroWatch Weekly, and he said that"KaOS seems to be trying a little bit hard to be different.
Distrowatch itself affirms that its page rankings are"a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website.
In 2016, Jesse Smith reviewed paldo GNU/Linux 2015 in DistroWatch Weekly: paldo is a Upkg driven GNU/Linux distribution.
There is also a Distrowatch weekly(often abbreviated DWW) that comes out on Monday"as a publication summarising the happenings in the distribution world on a weekly basis.
Frugalware 2.1(Derowd) released Distribution Release:Frugalware Linux 2.1(DistroWatch. com News)"Interview with Frugalware Linux Developer, VMiklos.
By September 2012 DistroWatch had changed the status to"active" again, and on 6 August 2013, the first version directly based on Debian, gNewSense 3"Parkes", was released.
As of November 2016,MX Linux is now listed as a separate distro on DistroWatch. antiX is a Linux distribution, originally based on MEPIS, which itself is based on the Debian stable distribution.
Distrowatch has a monthly donations program, a joint initiative between DistroWatch and two online shops selling low-cost CDs and DVDs with Linux, BSD and other open source software.
In reviewing gNewSense 3.0 in August 2013, Jesse Smith of DistroWatch noted that many of the applications provided, including OpenOffice. org 3, Debian's de-blobbed 2.6.32 Linux kernel(based on Linux-libre tools), Iceweasel 3.5 and GNOME 2.30 were quite out of date.
In a May 2016 review Jesse Smith of DistroWatch concluded,"despite my initial problems getting Ubuntu MATE installed and running smoothly, I came away with a positive view of the distribution.
Subsequent experimentation by Distrowatch concluded that the performance advantages observed in Debian were due to Xubuntu's inclusion of memory-hungry software not present in Debian's implementation of Xfce.
PCWorld has written that"the page-hit counts on DistroWatch give some indication of which distributions are drawing the most interest at the moment, of course, but such measures can't be assumed to gauge who's actually using what or which are preferred overall". e.g. see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux page on the web site rankings.