Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 30th Mar 2003 07:47 UTC
Yes, we all know the "big three" (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) commercial distros, we also know the next big bunch of respected traditional/geek distros (Debian and Slackware and some might add Gentoo too in this list), and we know the "other big three" in the desktop Linux area (Lindows, Xandros, Lycoris). However, not everyone knows what is available besides this "threshold". Here is a list of Linux distros that worth knowing about and to keep an eye on! 
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>>>> <em> Connectiva is the leading distro for the Latin-speaking Linux userbase. </em>
> Latin speaking? I thought Latin was dead. Apparently Connectiva is old schoolus.
Haha, verius funnius.
Of course, strictly speaking, Eugenia (and many Americans) is not wrong. Portuguese is a Latin language, as much as English is a Germanic language.
So USA is a Germanic speaking country. Congrats.
What would be not right is calling Brazilians, Portuguese and Italians by the "Hispanic" designation -- as it's often done.
Hispanic refers to Spain (and spanish-speaking countries, but this is stretching), and has its own charateristics (some even great: hispanic women are among the most beautiful on Earth) -- which we don't possess.
As a side note, Conectiva is a thought-up name, possibly meaning "something (female) making connections". *It has just one "n"*, probably because we never use "nn", nor "mm", nor "tt" in Portuguese. There's only "rr" and "ss".
> I bet the Pope uses this distro :-)
Maybe the Pope uses Windows -- for the Cathedral thing, y'know... ;-)
Also, Eugenia cannot cover an infinite amount of distros. There's no point in saying "You forgot this or that". A new Linux distro is born everyday.