“Mayank Sharma: We are all aware of how
DistroWatch came to be. But I am sure not many recall how the
website has evolved over its half a decade period of existence.“Ladislav Bodnar: It started in May 2001 as a
single-page table listing a dozen Linux distributions in a table
format. As feedback and suggestions started coming in, the page
expanded into 13–the front page with news and the comparison
table, plus 12 pages for each of the listed distributions. They
were static HTML pages. It wasn’t until about a year later when I
finally got around to learn some PHP and re-wrote the site to
provide dynamic content…”