Assignment Three -- Which Linux Distribution Is The Best
The objective of this assignment is for you to develop an idea about how the different Linux distributions rate on a scale that is meaningful to you. This will require you to do a little research.
  • Start by researching Linux distributions on the internet. Do not just go with one site's opinion. For example, search for "top 10 Linux distributions" and you should get several results, but if you open them and read them, they do not list all of the same distributions and they are not in the same order. That is because that is the order that matters based on their criteria.
  • After reading a number of reviews to get a feel for how the distributions are different and why some people favor some over others, create your own criteria for selecting a system. Your criteria should have at least 5 elements, but if you have more than 10 just use the top 10 for this assignment.(An example of a criteria would be "Security").
  • The last part of this assignment is to use your criteria to select what you think are the best 3 Linux distributions based on your criteria. You may want to take a look at the home page for the distro's you select just to see if the official information about them is consistent with the review hype.
Proof of Completion - You will create a 5-slide presentation of your research that you could use to sell your picks to other people.
  1. The first three slides you will list your top three picks in the order of your preference.
  2. Each of these slides will have a title of the selected distro and have your criteria as a bulleted list with how that distro met your criteria.
  3. Just to make it interesting, place the distro's logo on the slide.
  4. The 4th slide will list other distro's you considered and a single short sentence on why they were not selected.
  5. The 5th slide is a conclusion. The idea of the conclusion is to impart upon us the wisdom you have gained in this assignment. Use your imagination.
Once you have completed the document save it in a format that is easy for me to review and grade (I use LibreOffice so I want you to complete this assignment using LibreOffice Impress).

Assignment Submission Criteria

To turn in this assignment you will go to the NSC Canvas shell for this class. Submit your LibreOffice file (yes, I want you to use LibreOffice since you are learning Linux so I want you to complete the assignment using LibreOffice Impress) using the submission button on the assignment page.