other lists

[davidak]

Here is a list of package managers i contributed to. You might want to link to it:

https://github.com/nilsding/awesome-package-management

There are also a lot of other lists:

https://github.com/LewisVo/Awesome-Linux-Software
https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
https://github.com/Friz-zy/awesome-linux-containers
and probably more if you search some seconds more...

for all distros you can link to http://distrowatch.org/

[inputsh]

While I do love all of these ideas, I tried to adhere to the sindresourhus/awesome rules. As such, awesome-linux-software is out of the question. I even had some tries at figuring out if the list is legit, and I don't think it is: sindresorhus/awesome#1032 (comment)

For the same reason, awesome-package-management is out of the question. Small deviations are fine, not adhering to those rules at all are not.

The other two, awesome-linuxaudio and awesome-linux-containers seem to be closer to filling out those rules, so they might be a better choice. I'll look through them closer to determine if they are a good fit or not, but from the first glance of it, I think they are.

As for the Distrowatch, I'm not sure if there are any advantages to it. The distro section is already populated by Distrowatch popularity, has Distrowatch descriptions and screenshots (as the most neutral source I could think of) (see this), but the website itself just doesn't seem that useful to me. The useful part of it seems to be already included in this list. I don't think enough people care about the rest of the Distrowatch content for it to be included here.

I would also argue that Compute Freely, which is on top of the "Useful Websites" section, does a much better job at explaining the Linux diversity than Distrowatch does. It's like a curated Distrowatch, which is partially what this list attempts to achieve as well.

[davidak]

Ah, i didn't know the rules. Thanks for pointing that out.

The package manager list is indeed more a collection.

Yes, Compute Freely is a great ressource for beginners to orientate and is well designed. distrowatch is for me a list of all distributions. It also shows the most popular ones. So you are absolutely right that you extracted the useful informations for an awesome list.