Linux in 2012: Distro of the Year, Top and Bottom 10, and Upcoming Releases

Top 10 Bottom 10 Upcoming releases

• 2013-01-08: Fedora 18
• Ubuntu 12.04.2
• 2013-02-04: Frugalware Linux 1.8
• 2013-03-05: Mageia 3 RC
• 2013-03-13: openSUSE 12.3
• 2013-03-20: Mageia 3
• 2013-04-25: Ubuntu 13.04

1 Mint 4237 2 Mageia 2226 3 Fedora 1639 4 Ubuntu 1593 5 Debian 1363 6 Arch 1183 7 openSUSE 1179 8 PCLinuxOS 1096 9 Puppy 869 10 OS4 856

308 Mangaka 11 309 Karoshi 11 310 Jibbed 11 311 IDMS 11 312 TFM 10 313 Ekaaty 10 314 Burapha 10 315 Omoikane 9 316 Càtix 9 317 LinEx 7

Distro Of the year:

The Winner of The platform trophy is :

• Based on: Arch
• Origin: Spain
• Architecture: i686, x86_64
• Desktop: Cinnamon
• Category: Desktop, Live Medium

Cinnarch is a modern, elegant and powerful Linux distribution and live CD based on Arch Linux. It uses LightDM as the login manager, Cinnamon as the graphical desktop and Chromium as the web browser. Cinnarch is a rolling-release distribution and the Cinnarch live CD includes a simple text-mode system installer.
Cinnarch has made a breakthrough the distro watch ranking table since it's first release. It started at #112 in the ranking table in January 2012 and ended at #15.
Ratings and information regarding distros in this post are featured by distrowatch.com