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
    }'