[ Thanks to Borys
Musielak for this link. ]
“Every free software enthusiast probably already knows that
distrowatch.com, created by Ladislav Bodnar, is a great source of
information on different open source operating systems. We can
pretty much admit that every respected distribution based on Linux
or BSD is at least mentioned on his website. You can find there
descriptions of systems, starting from those small and fast ones,
to the enormous distributions filled with packages that even the
actual creators of those systems wouldn’t even think of. For
instance, let’s take DSL which ‘weights’ only 49 megabytes or the
newest DVD version of Slackware that that takes up to 3.7
gigabytes. Debian, well, that’s definitely a biggie. It takes up 3
DVD’s, which adds up to 12.9 gigabytes of packages ready to get
installed. GoboLinux–fits on one CD, ‘weighing’ 640 megabytes and
finally Linux From Scratch Distribution–one PDF file, with over
250 pages…”