DistroWatch

Mint moved out.

Half the distros on DistroWatch moved out.

Debian's still on the porch waving.

By the way, Butterbean lives in the basement.

So I started looking at Linux distributions and which ones I should go to.

Now, there's a website out there called DistroWatch.com. D-I-S-T-R-O-W-A-T-C-H dot com.

And I've been watching that since, oh God, can't remember when I started.

And it's got the rankings.

The Lunduk Computer Operating System, LCOS, has just hit the number 12 spot on DistroWatch.

Out of all of the hundreds and hundreds of Linux distributions currently being ranked, LCOS is now up to number 12 and is still climbing.

It's shot past OpenSUSE and Arch and Gentoo and NixOS and hundreds and hundreds of others.

And if you go to that releases page, you can download an ISO.

There's other ways to get it too, but that's the most simple to explain way.

What's crazy is the London Computer Operating System is at number 12 on DistroWatch and it doesn't have a website yet.

It just left alpha testing and it doesn't have a website yet.

Crazy, crazy.

42,000 GitHub stars, 5,969 pull requests, 521 contributors.

DistroWatch popularity rank 19, about 501 hits a day.

500 contributors on a project that's a year old.

And the money followed.

I wasn't sure if the 2014 version of Chaos had KDE or not.

I was just looking at DistroWatch real quick when writing this story.

But at least over 10 years, it's had KDE.

um you know the plasma has been the default desktop for a long time well that changed back in february when chaos developers ran into a wall with system 257 in their own words running an install in system systemd257 has been tested a while now creating an iso with it still fails the problem is chaos relies on a split slash user setup as in split slash usr is split up and recent systemd versions stop fully supporting that.