What are the more obscure independent linux distros? (piefed.zip)

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We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

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[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

There's the Mandriva successors: Mageia, OpenMandriva Lx, PCLinuxOS and ROSA Linux. As far as I know, they are completely independent projects, even if they started as Mandriva forks.

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