download sites

What's OP?

OS=='operating system'

I don't work for this site but seems to me that doing what you ask would  be mainly useless and redundant so thus not worth the overhead for this site.

I've been running linux,unix,other OSs for many years so I think I qualify as having knowledge in computers and OSs but won't download an OS without at the very least reading the release notes and if not familiar with particular linux distro reading a heck of a lot more about it. So a direct link from a site like this is useless.

It would be redundant since other sites already do a good job of curating data-bases of linux distros.

Here's some stats from one such site- http://distrowatch.com/

DistroWatch database summary

• Number of all distributions in the database: 832
• Number of active distributions in the database: 283
• Number of dormant distributions: 59
• Number of discontinued distributions: 489
• Number of distributions on the waiting list: 230
• Number of distributions waiting for evaluation: 151

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Distros spend a year on distrowatch's waiting list because lots of them don't last that long.

Many distros have multiple d/l images depending on use- pc,soho, server, embedded,etc

or architecture- 386, x_64, arm, etc

or desktop environment- kde gnome fluxbox, etc

Makes for a lot of links to track don't you think?

As you are new to linux this site may be of interest to you:

http://livecdlist.com/

It keeps track of distros with live images you can burn to cd or usb stick to try out before installing.

Sorry but have to get a little dig in on your last statement.

If it takes you an hour to find a d/l link for linux you really need to practice your google-fu.

Using search terms "+linux +download" sans quotes, resulted in over 56 million hits and the first page of results was nearly all d/l links for specific linux distros. Adding name of a distro to search terms should bring it to the first page of results.

harv