Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC when he used that processor architecture. He became accustomed to the operating system and continues to use it. According to Distrowatch, Fedora is the second most popular Linux-based... [show more]

Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC when he used that processor architecture. He became accustomed to the operating system and continues to use it.
According to Distrowatch, Fedora is the second most popular Linux-based operating system as of mid 2009, behind Ubuntu.

Although Knoppix is primarily designed to be used as a Live CD, it can also be installed on a hard disk like a typical operating system. Computers that support booting from USB devices can load Knoppix from a live USB flash drive or memory card.
There are two main editions of Knoppix: the traditional Compact Disc (700 megabytes) edition and the DVD (4.7 gigabytes) "Maxi" edition. Each of these main editions has two language-specific editions: English and German.
Knoppix mostly consists of free and open source software, but also includes proprietary software.

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Lightweight Slackware-based distro. "Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux operating system, designed to provide the following characteristics: # Modern and user-friendly (latest stable software, selected applications) # Fast (optimized for performance capabilities) # Rational (one mainstream... [show more]

Lightweight Slackware-based distro.

"Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux operating system, designed to provide the following characteristics:

# Modern and user-friendly (latest stable software, selected applications)
# Fast (optimized for performance capabilities)
# Rational (one mainstream application for each task)
# Complete (full development/desktop/multimedia environment)
# Evolutionary (simple network package management tool - netpkg)" [show less]