Fourteen Best Linux Distros

Alright, I’ve been posting a lot of Linux-related news lately, but it’s hard not to. There have been so many good articles lately, that I’d feel like I’m doing a disservice by not posting them. Last week, I linked to Lifehacker, who posted a good article on choosing between Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu. This week, Tech Radar ups that ante by taking a brief look at fourteen.

Despite the fact that they’ve chosen fourteen distros to feature, all of them are rather well-known, with the more uncommon of the bunch being Slackware, CentOS (used more in servers) and Knoppix. The article takes a look at what makes each distro unique and for whom it’s built. Many of these “guides” usually overlook key points for certain distros, but this one is quite well-done, so it’s definitely worth a read if you are still undecided on which distro to call home.

My heart still belongs to Gentoo… for now at least.

The main difference though is that Gentoo does not try to hide the inner workings of the distro behind easy to use GUI tools. This is a distro for those that want to know what is going on behind the scenes and get their hands dirty tweaking it. For this is Gentoo’s greatest strength: the sheer amount of control that it offers the users.