Subj : Too many? :) To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Sep 19 2020 07:29:00 Hi Ky! > > |-- !Unsorted > | |-- 4MLinux-31.0-32bit.iso > | |-- ALive-15.0.iso > | |-- AVLinux-isotester-x64-2019.4.10.iso > > Too many 'Unsorted', yes! KM> Haha... yeah, the debate is whether I should sort 'em purely by KM> distro, or make a tree hierarchy by family, which appeals to my KM> sense of organization, but I'd never find half of 'em again, cuz KM> who remembers that Some Obscure Distro was based on a derivative KM> of Debian by way of Ubuntu via Mint? and then there's the ones KM> that jump ship, like LMDE. My initial thought was to follow that which appeals to your sense of organization -- after all, your compilation! As for the 'never find again' aspect, simply use a Find or Search option? Start from near the top and have computer drill down and locate for you. Another option might be a 'Map' file. Might be a big spreadsheet -- use an actual spreadsheet utility of just columns in a (landspace oriented) text file. Thinking something like a listing of the filename, derivation information, bits (16, 32, 64, etc.), possibly notes ("works up to 386", "Died with Y2K"). KM> Have you SEEN the family tree? it's... astonishing.... KM> https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=family-tree It looks just like the one in Chemistry classes! The 'curvey' one at the bottom looked neat -- I did click to view and the original was more legible; just couldn't expand sufficiently. KM> Trees somewhat separated out, and possibly more up to date: KM> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions That chart I could expand. This site you might be able to copy some of the information to save typing your own list. ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Odd recipes: Angelfish Cake --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .