Datamation examines the Debian and Ubuntu distros in detail by starting with the question, what is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu? Neither GNU/Linux distro has been out of Distrowatch's top six since 2005, and for the last four years neither has been out of the top three. There are good reasons for that. Though if systemd is not your cup of tea, there is also a Debian fork, Devuan, which is basically Debian GNU/Linux minus systemd.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by VLM on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:49PM
That was SLS "softlanding linux solutions" circa 1993, 1994 ish timeframe. Distributed as a set of floppy disks which were split tar files. Like set A booted and didn't do much else, set B came with usable base commands to do stuff, set C came with the compiler, set K was the kernel source (0.99 or something?) and set X was very old but working Xwindow. Possibly set E was emacs. Everything worked assuming your floppy disks held up. I seem to remember it took two boxes of floppy disks if you wanted an entire set, but if you were industrious yet cheap, the largest set was only 7 or so disks, so you'd install A B and C and then optionally reuse the disks for K or X if you wanted that kind of thing.