On the other hand, you have Fedora 18... What were they thinking ditching Anaconda? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > I'm amazed by the amount of innovation going on in the Linux world. > > The Linux Mint team breathed new life into the once-flagging MATE project > (a continuation of GNOME 2). MATE has since spread into many other distros. > > The Linux Mint team started the Cinnamon project to give GNOME 3 the look > and feel of GNOME 2. Cinnamon has since spread to competing distros. > Cinnarch uses Cinnamon as its default DE. > > Mageia (forked from Mandriva) is the second distro to eclipse Ubuntu on > Distrowatch. Only Linux Mint ranks higher. > > Several Arch Linux derivatives have popped up lately. Just a year or so > ago, I was wondering why there weren't Arch Linux derivatives. Perhaps one > of these Arch derivatives can be the Ubuntu or Mint of Arch Linux. > > There is a new distro called ArchPup, which is Puppy Linux built from Arch > Linux packages. This is a sign of success for both Puppy Linux and Arch > Linux. > > All is not lost for Ubuntu, as people are still creating Ubuntu > derivatives. However, the controversial Unity interface still isn't > gaining traction among desktop users. Unlike MATE and Cinnamon, Unity > hasn't been spreading to Ubuntu's competitors. > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130124/fdd46261/attachment.html>