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.

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 ...

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Distrowatch also has an active account on Mastodon for denizens of the Fediverse. The Reg FOSS desk has confirmed that the block was real and active up until lunchtime today.

The problem came to light when DistroWatch, a site that covers the Linux ecosystem, brought up how the mysterious Facebook ban has been stymying discussion about the open-source OS.

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Facebook is reportedly removing posts which share links to DistroWatch Other mentions of Linux and open-source OSs also affected Meta says this was an "error" and that it's been fixed Some posts ...

Though last year it occupied the No. 2 spot on the DistroWatch list, Fedora now comes in third on that list, presumably as a result of the shifting around of Ubuntu and Mint.

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A bit of a sidebar: I realize that Distrowatch isn’t the bellwether of Linux popularity. For those of us who’ve been around the Linux block for a few decades, it’s an important indicator.