Hi
Iode OS has now a page on Distrowatch: DistroWatch.com: iodeOS
As a Linux user I visit Distrowatch quite often and on my previous visit it was not “on the list”. Merely it was under a page for being “activated”. I cast a vote for that to happen and it seems my vote might have had an effect (I’m NOT taking credits for this!).
If there are enough people visiting the page and clicking on the links (website and forum links) this would result in better visibility for the project if it makes it to TOP 100.
So for now on I’ll be visiting the forum trough the distrowatch link.
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I would have thought that someone might have given us the head’s up on here to support the vote. The promotion of iode as a practical alternative to more mainstream OS’s that have nothing to do with Russia 
don’t seem to be much of a priority in anyone’s mind at this moment in time. Very disappointing!
Well. If I recall correctly I think my vote was not the only one, but there were very few votes for around 10 propositions. I now searched again for iode OS on distrowatch and was thinking mentioning about the vote; now there’s no need anymore.
What one can do is make a good review of the iode OS.
I’m not a regular phone heavy-user… I use the phone as least as possible and very few apps… I also use right now an unofficial Iode build for Sony XZ2 Premiun (thank you Petefoth !) so I’m not really the most fit person to do a review.
I did review other OSes that I use: Bodhi Linux and /e/ OS for instance.
I couldn’t really do a review either as I remove micro G and Aurora at the setup stage purely because I am of the opinion that if you want to get the best out of an OS OS, run FOSS on it. Also… because I believe we need to be actively supporting not only FOSS app developers, but the companies too that provide their services to FOSS users if we want them to continue to support FOSS PC’s and phones.
I understand the reasons as to why some users are pressured into keeping a foot in both camps but sometimes you need to make a stand if you want to see change on a major scale.
Well. There are now 2 reviews on distrowatch.
I hope it will gather interest and rise to the top 100; for now the position of 6 months (default on main page) is only 266 (out of 270).
I get
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this resource.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
iodé was also featured in distrowatch’s weekly review: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
Yes, I was just going to write that. I read the review early this morning.
@msp I don’t know why you’re getting that error… I accessed the link from multiple devices (and from 2 countries) with no problems.
Go to https://distrowatch.com/ and in the left up corner type iode in the search field (Type Distribution Name) and try like that.
Still
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this resource.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
from Germany (Chromium Browser on Linux).
Well… try form a phone or use a different browser?!
I don’t use Chromium. On all laptops I use Firefox and sometimes FlashPeak Slimjet (chromium based). Maybe you have some filtering from you IP or some settings on your network. Do you have access to other computers/phones?
They reject the chromium browser for any reason. FF, Midori + curl works well.
I went on Distrowatch using the Ungoogled Chromium browser which is the go to on all my PC’s and registers as ‘chromium’ where ever I go on the net. Accessed without any problems so no reason to believe it has anything to do with the browser itself. Maybe settings of course.
It’s the user-agent:
$ curl --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://distrowatch.com/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access this resource.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>
Cutting the “Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36” from the user-agent and the request succeeds.
@map glad you sorted that out and that you can now access the site.
Meantime, on distrowatch iode is slowly going up and there are 3 reviews now.
Regarding the distrowatch review I think iode team was quite brave to send a phone with 6.0 for review; I would have sent one with 5.8 /5.9.
Distrowatch made a review of Graphene OS and it compared the installation of the phone reviewed with /e/ OS and iode OS.
On the other hand even if I visited the link of iode on the distrowatch site almost daily and usually form more devices iode OS is still only on 269th place for the 6-month average.
Maybe the mention of 6.2 release (if it happens) would boost a bit the number of visits..