Hi,
I've already worked out some criteria. The question is, do we have someone here who wants to look at the distributions and collect the information? If someone wants to do this, then I can show you the criteria I had in mind, and maybe others can make useful suggestions.
pls tell me your criteria.
However, if there is no one here who wants to do the work, discussing the criteria now would not lead anywhere, so we may as well do other things instead.
I could do this, and I think this is a valuable job to do. If the job will spend a lot of time which goes beyond one people, I could ask help from others in the mailing list.
I see no need to even try to review 188 distributions. We should aim to review Debian, the major commercial distributions, and any noncommercial distributions that we have a reason to want to recommend.
I have notised that Debian 3.0 is frozen, so if you agree, I could start on Debian 3.0, once all the packages inside Debian checked one by one, then we could start to other major commercial distributions checking. I think finally the index or a diagram could be developed.
Best, Frederic