The Best Linux Distribution?
According to the Linux watching web site, DistroWatch, there are more than 400 Linux and BSD distributions currently available and active. Many of these exist with many versions, giving thousands of possible options to choose from.
The question often arises "Which one is the best?". As with many simple questions, it does not have a simple answer. Typically, if you ask five random Linux users, you will get five different and conflicting answers. This short opinion piece is my contribution to the debate. It is wise to avoid a distribution that has died: if no one is developing and maintaining the distribution it may be missing many desirable features and will almost certainly have defects. Modern security software is absent from older distributions, and these distributions have well known defects that are easily exploitable. The Internet is no longer a safe place and there is no excuse for running an old and insecure distribution, when there are safer ones to choose from.
