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What's the most obscure distro you can think of
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Jarro Negro. Made by Mexican students. And as far as I know, it's independent, not based on another distro.
hyperbola
they have a wiki with insane nonsens about why they don't package certain things
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages
Sabayon Linux
I used it for a few years, great distro. I think it's dead now.
also Funtoo Linux, but i never really used it
Have you ever heard of arch? That's what I use by the way
KISS
it's just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.
Basically LFS on drugs.
Rebecca Black OS.
It is the only Linux distro to date built around Weston, using Wayland's full capability:
It doesn't include any Rebecca Black theming or is related to her in any way.
It's just called that cause the dev is a fan of hers.
From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.
I’m pretty sure that screenshot is Wayfire, not Weston.
Tell me if has a special "Friday" desktop at least.
Kolibri
it's main feature is that it completely redefines the system's root directory structure. the only reason i even know it exists is because i'm friends with one of the creators
Smoothwall. I used to run it a lot back in the early 2000s for personal use and even helped set up a couple small businesses with it but I don't hear of anyone else using it these days, people seem to love openwrt and pfsense more.
It was great for just taking any old x86 machine and making a powerful, fully featured firewall/router out of it, including a VPN server, all through a web interface. Nowadays that's boring shit but in 2002 it was pretty cool.
We had this as the firewall in our school! I remember bypassing it in so many ways with Google DNS and whatnot.
Any reason to use this over opnsense?
Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.
Check out the random button on Distrowatch (distrowatch.com/random.php) - it's like a Linux lottery, but you always win something weird!
Let's make this a game. Click on it, then you have to install that on bare metal and daily it for a month.
Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480..
Got RISC OS
mom, I'm scared
Ha I got tuxedo OS, hopefully thats not too niche
That’s what I’ve been running on my gaming machine and it’s been great.
That's nice to hear!
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I'm gonna go with Tom's Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.
Didn't think Knoppix was obscure, but that was my gateway to Linux first on all my personal PCs.
I guess the years have passed it by.
Hannah Monata Linux and Red Star from North Korea.
Woah woah woah, there's a North Korean Linux distribution?
Yes, of course. They can hardly use an OS that phones home to the US.
It's interesting because it's essentially the opposite of the idea behind Linux. Using Linux specifically to censor and spy on people is diabolical, but it makes sense why they chose it.
The idea behind Linux is to create an operating system anyone can use in any way they want.
That includes the North Korean government using it to spy on their people.
Suicide linux. Nobody can run it for more than a day
Edit: i just searched "suicide linux" to see if it still exists and one of the top results was ian murdock's wiki page, :(
“suicide linux”
Looked it up with quotes and the first update in the first search result:
Update 2011-12-26
Someone has turned Suicide Linux into a genuine Debian package. Good show!
:(
Chimera Linux
Well I don’t hear much about Gentoo, Damn Small, Puppy or Knoppix anymore. Wonder if they still exist.
I haven’t done much disto hopping since I settled on Ubuntu around ‘08 and then on NixOS last year. I like my systems working when I need them and waiting around for a new install to finish is boring to me.
I think NixOS has taken a bit of Gentoo's mindshare. They solve similar problems with very different approaches.
How so? When I switched to NixOs I was looking for system stability over time. That’s not really something I associate with Gentoo, at least not on a desktop system.
I use puppy from time to time. Works well.
Gentoo still exists. Damn Small was dead for a decade but has risen again recently. Puppy is alive and well. Knoppix is still alive, but the last downloadable release is almost 4 years old.
Gentoo still exists 🙂
elive
you think a distribution that automatically includes all the proprietary stuff that we use baked into the distro would be more popular since it makes linux ready to go for most people; but it still gets fewer than 300 clicks per month.
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