Leaderboard
Current Leaderboard:
Combined Overall Rating
Mepis 8.0: 4.8
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 4.5
CentOS 5.3: 4.3
CrunchBang 8.10: 4.3
Combined Granny Rating
Mepis 8.0: 5.75
CentOS 5.3: 2.5
CrunchBang 8.10: 1.5
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 0
Combined Power User Rating
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 7.5
CentOS 5.3: 5.25
CrunchBang 8.10: 4.5
Mepis 8.0: 4.25
Combined Annoyance Factor
Mepis 8.0: 3.5
CentOS 5.3: 3
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 2.5
CrunchBang 8.10: 1.5
Combined Software Selection
Mepis 8.0: 6.5
CrunchBang 8.10: 6.0
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 5.0
CentOS 5.3: 3.75
Combined Community
CrunchBang 8.10: 8.5
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 8.0
Mepis 8.0: 6.0
CentOS 5.3: 5.75
Combined Performance
N/A — See individual ratings
Jeremy Overall Rating
Mepis 8.0: 5.6
CentOS 5.3: 5.6
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 5.0
CrunchBang 8.10: 3.4
Jeremy Granny Rating
Mepis 8.0: 6.5
CentOS 5.3: 3
CrunchBang 8.10: 1
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 0
Jeremy Power User Rating
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 9
CentOS 5.3: 7.5
Mepis 8.0: 3.5
CrunchBang 8.10: 3
Jeremy Annoyance Factor
CentOS 5.3: 5
Mepis 8.0: 5
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 2
CrunchBang 8.10: 1
Jeremy Software Selection
Mepis 8.0: 6
CentOS 5.3: 5
CrunchBang 8.10: 5
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 5
Jeremy Community
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 9
CentOS 5.3: 7.5
Mepis 8.0: 7
CrunchBang 8.10: 7
Jeremy Performance
(I don’t assign a rating; I simply show the benchmarks)
Gentoo 2009.07.21: [TBA]
Mepis 8.0: [TBA]
CentOS 5.3: [121 MB ; 208 GeekBench]
CrunchBang 8.10: Disqualified [Non-equivalent GUI]
JD Overall Rating
CrunchBang 8.10: 5.2
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 4.0
Mepis 8.0: 4.0
CentOS 5.3: 3.0
JD Granny Rating
Mepis 8.0: 5
CrunchBang 8.10: 2
CentOS 5.3: 1.5
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 0
JD Power User Rating
CrunchBang 8.10: 5
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 5
Mepis 8.0: 5
CentOS 5.3: 3
JD Annoyance Factor
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 3
CrunchBang 8.10: 2
Mepis 8.0: 2
CentOS 5.3: 1
JD Software Selection
CrunchBang 8.10: 7
Mepis 8.0: 7
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 5
CentOS 5.3: 2.5
JD Community
CrunchBang 8.10: 10
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 7
Mepis 8.0: 5
CentOS 5.3: 4
JD Performance
CentOS 5.3: 6.5 [105 MB; Bazy Lastard]
Gentoo 2009.07.21: 4 [Bazy Lastard]
Mepis 8.0: ?? [Bazy Lastard]
CrunchBang 8.10: N/A
Ratings Criteria:
Granny Rating
- Ease of installation
- Ease of use
- Ease of getting non-free essentials (mp3; flash; …)
- Default theme
Power User Rating
- Customizeable
- Flexible
- Ease of compiling software
- Ease of getting bleeding edge software
Annoyance Factor (Stallmans)
- Pointless hassle
- Jumping through hoops to get non-free software
- Stupid design decisions
Software Selection
- Software freshness
- Software selection
Community
- Assistance through forums
- Assistance through IRC
- Documentation
- Ease of contributing back
Performance
- Geekbench 2.1.2
- Memory Footprint (See memory free script below)
# display real ram free usage
free | awk '/Mem:/ {
free = ($2 - $3) + $(NF - 1) + $NF
ratio = free / $2 * 100
printf "ram: %.2fMB Free - %.2f%%\n", free / 1024, ratio
}
/Swap:/ {
ratio = $4 / $2 * 100
printf "swap: %.2fMB Free - %.2f%%\n", $4 / 1024, ratio
}'
