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Top Ten Sleeper Distros

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 22, 2013

With all of the recent stories I’ve written and my obvious bias toward one particular Linux community Distribution, you’d think there is nothing else to talk about.

Well, there is.  When I was young and had nothing better to do than ride around in a rag-top 70 Mustang consuming fossil fuel, we coined the term ‘sleeper’ for those cars which looked innocuous but under the hood had some major performance value going on.  In other words, they’d blow the doors off of other so-called ‘hot rods’ but didn’t give the tell-tale signs of being souped up

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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