[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“The list is organized into several different categories. The
“major” distributions come first, followed by distros based on
Ubuntu, Debian, Red/Hat Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, Arch and
Gentoo. Next come some distros that are optimized for cloud
computing, some very lightweight distributions, some that are
designed to look as much like Windows as possible and finally, some
notable distros that didn’t seem to fit into any other category. Of
course, some distributions could fit into more than one category,
but we tried to place them where they seemed to fit most
naturally.“Also, in limiting ourselves to the fifty, we undoubtedly left
off some noteworthy Linux distributions. If you’d like to nominate
one (or more) that you think should have been included, please free
to use the comments section below.”