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DistroWatch is a popular Web site which provides news, popularity rankings, and other general information about various Linux distributions (and other open-source operating systems such as OpenSolaris and BSD). It now contains information on several hundreds of distributions.
The site maintains extensive comparison charts detailing differences between the package sets and software revisions of different distributions. It also provides some general characteristics of distributions such as the price and the supported processor architectures.
It was originally published on May 31, 2001, and is maintained by Ladislav Bodnar. (http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=about) DistroWatch is well known for its "page hit counter", which is often cited as "the best 'barometer' of Linux distributions on the internet", and is often used to rank the popularity of a given distribution. (http://www.zenwalk.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=7)
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