| Frequently Asked Questions about DistroWatch |
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About DistroWatch |
| The DistroWatch web site was first published on 31 May 2001. The concept started as a very simple table comprising of 5 major distributions and the chart only compared a few features (price, version, release date) and a few package versions (Kernel, KDE, Gnome, XFree86, Apache). Trying to make it slightly more comprehensive and useful (and failing to find anything similar and up-to-date on the Internet), I have kept adding more distributions, features and packages until the table reached fairly reasonable state in terms of information provided. At that stage, I decided to share the table with the Linux community worldwide and moved it from a spreadsheet into an HTML document. |
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People behind DistroWatch |
| The site was established, developed and is maintained by Ladislav Bodnar, a Slovakian-born South African living in Taiwan. I attempted my first ever installation of a Linux operating system in April 1999. The Chinese say: "A one-thousand mile journey starts with a single step." Those first steps were not very easy, but the journey itself has been full of pleasant surprises, even joys and, most importantly, it has been a journey of freedom. Linux is great and this site is just a small contribution to all who enjoy it. DistroWatch has a number of active contributors - among them Dr Zhu Wen Tao, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, Susan Linton, the founder and webmaster of Tuxmachines.org and Jesse Smith. |
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Other contributors |
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| My big "thank you for your help" goes to the following volunteer translators and other contributors:
Albanian - Albert Hyseni, Florian Mishaxhi
Arabic - Mohammed Farouk, Abdulrahman Essam, Luai Mukhtar
Catalan - Rafael Carreras Guillén
Chinese Simplified - Zhu Wen Tao
Chinese Traditional - Zhu Wen Tao
Bengali - Jamil Ahmed
Bosnian - Dino Fahrudin Avdibegovic
Bulgarian - Georgi Marinov, Boian Aleksiev
Croatian - Darko Cokor, Dominko Aždajić
Czech - V. Mark Lehký, Misu
Danish - Per Mortensen, Francois Thunus, Jens H. Kruuse
Dutch - Rio Kierkels, Rogier van Gemert, Herman Meester
Estonian - Edmund Laugasson
Finnish - Pasi Ruhanen
French - Pierre Slamich
Friulian - Massimo Furlani
German - Michael Eickenboom, Silvio Costa, Thomas Blechinger
Greek - Christos Vasdekis, Panos Panagiotis
Hebrew - Eddy Nigg, Offer Kaye
Hindi - Abhijeet K. Singh, Mohd Omar
Hungarian - Kornél Dluhi
Indonesian - Hendra Budi, Ronald Kuwawi
Italian - Massimiliano, Giorgio Beltrammi
Japanese - Daisuke Suzuki
Korean - Thomas Chung, Yeuri, Jong Woong Lee
Lithuanian - Justinas Lelys, Andrius Kurtinaitis
Macedonian - Jovan Naumovski
Norwegian - Vegard Fiksdal
Persian - Alan Baghumian
Polish - Kamil Stachowski, Artur Szymański
Portuguese - Jose Tadeu Barros, Paulo Lino, Oliver Zancul Prado, Luis Fonseca Carvalho De Matos
Romanian - Florin Veres, Ghita "Zamo" Serban
Russian - Victor Serbin, Anton Starikov
Serbian - Marko Djukic
Slovak - Stanislav Hoferek
Slovenian - Marko Zupancic
Spanish - Darío Burstin, Jorge Luis Suarez, Marcos Lagos, José Manuel Pérez
Swedish - Andreas Lundqvist, Jan Braunisch, Per Lindström
Tamil - Thangaraj Karuppuswamy
Thai - Dome Charoenyost, Narachai Sakorn
Turkish - Metin Kocaer
Ukrainian - Olexandr Kravchuk
Urdu - Muhammad Fahd Waseem
Vietnamese - Trinh Minh Thanh
If you wish to translate parts of DistroWatch into your language, please translate this file and email it to distro at distrowatch.com.
Some of the DistroWatch grahics were designed by Ian MacGregor.
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Contact details |
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Name: Ladislav Bodnar
Physical Address: 8F, No 54, Anchung Rd, 231 Hsintien, Taiwan
Telephone: +886 2 2211-9570 (home/office), +886 912 034681 (cell)
E-mail: distro at distrowatch.com
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