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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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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Buildroot, Alpine and OpenWRT

Just a word of warning: be careful of some of the more obscure distros as they tend to get behind on security updates

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

Alpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven't considered running it as a desktop OS.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

I wouldn't personally use it on the desktop. If it ran systemd I'd consider it for servers.

[-] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Openwrt is fairly secure, no? Otherwise people wouldn't use it in their network stack?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

Generally it is pretty solid. By obscure I mean distros like Tinycore that don't have security as a focus

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