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Visual family tree of Linux distributions (distrowatch.com)
3 points by modevs 656 days ago
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Can somebody explain to me how Debian with a popularity score of 2, and a stable distro date of 1996 is down low in the Ubuntu-Debian group?

Put simply: I do not understand the ranking mechanism and outcome. Is it Left to right within a colour group? Is it top to bottom? is it inverse rank * year of stability or some other mechanism to sort?