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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Conectiva is a great distro. it uses apt for rpm out of the box and the distro lends a lot of support to its apt repositories and mirrors. apt is well integrated into the distro so no headeaches trying to get it to compile and work. its a sinch to set up a repository and save time/bandwidth for your organization. Conectiva also installs a complete server or desktop workstation off of one cd. there are 4 cd's available for conectiva 8 but you only need teh first one to install apache/php/kde/gnome/postfix/proftpd/cyrus/ and more. the install is a bit slow (packages are very tightly compressed) but hey, you only need one cd and you can "set it and forget it". i'm running kde 3.1.1 for weeks now (got it pre-compiled off an apt repository the day it was released). all i had to do is type:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
bam.
debian has this too, just that the installer wanst working well for me.