Distrowatch. When I first started using and writing about Linux in the late 1990s, there were just a few distributions to choose from, and even those were a bit hard to discover (unless you knew ...

UPDATED. DistroWatch, one of the most popular Linux desktop sites, stumbled over the July 4 weekend. The site's management has told ZDNet that they expect the site to return shortly.

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According to DistroWatch, there have been reports that if you post about Linux on Facebook or share a link to DistroWatch after January 19, 2025, the post will be deleted.

They don't count downloads or boxes: they count page hits for each distro's page on the DistroWatch site. "Only one hit per IP address per day is counted," the site explains.