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DistroWatch.com

Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark measured 2026-08-20 — deterministic & reproducible

DistroWatch tracks and lists Linux and BSD distributions in one place.

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Legit.Show scored DistroWatch.com 35/100 on 2026-08-20, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/distrowatch-com/2026-08-20

Is DistroWatch.com production-ready?

Legit.Show scores DistroWatch.com 35 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on DistroWatch.com (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 10/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 67/100
• Standards — 30/100
• Discoverability — 45/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 1656 ms to first byte.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: sitemap.

Who it's for

Linux enthusiasts · System administrators · Developers · Beginners learning Linux · Distribution maintainers

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from distrowatch.com's own website on 2026-08-20.

Operator

Atea Ataroa Limited, as named in distrowatch.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-08-20.

Put together from public information, without DistroWatch.com's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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