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 ...

DistroWatch reached out to Facebook. But initially, the company refused to relent. “I've tried to appeal the ban and was told ...

We have been forgetting who the good guys are lately. Facebook’s bizarre censorship of Linux groups and the wholesome DistroWatch magazine was a mistake, the social notworking outfit has admitted.

Case in point: DistroWatch‘s page hit rankings for Linux distributions. I’ve covered DistroWatch’s top 10 at the end of each of the past two years, and the differences never fail to be striking.

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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That’s what MX Linux is all about, and part of the reason why it’s become the most downloaded Linux distribution on Distrowatch. It has the stability of Debian, the flexibility of Xfce ...