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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.

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
• Privacy — 25/100
• 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

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