Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jul 2007 22:42 UTC, submitted by WillM
Linux "Remember the 1980s worries about how the 'forking' of Unix could hurt that operating system's chances for adoption? That was nothing compared to the mess we've got today with Linux, where upwards of 300 distributions vie for the attention of computer users seeking an alternative to Windows."
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I count five
by aliquis on Fri 20th Jul 2007 11:57 UTC
aliquis
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2005-07-23

redhat/mandriva
suse
slackware/arch/..
debian/ubuntu/..
gentoo

On those you get more or less the same and you can quite confident ignore the rest ;D

I guess one could say it's same old + gentoo but with lots of stupid useless variants.