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[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

United Linux - the famous Red Hat Enterprise Linux killer!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Linux

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago
[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Oh jeez. I forgot about that. I had that running on my DS back in the day from a GBA flashcart with a big-ass CompactFlash card sticking out the bottom. Good times.

[-] AnthropomorphicCat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Jarro Negro. Made by Mexican students. And as far as I know, it's independent, not based on another distro.

[-] b_engelenburg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Wsl just because it is from ms.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

WSL isn’t a distro.

I think you mean Azure Linux ( formerly CBL Mariner ):

https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux?tab=readme-ov-file

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

[-] chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 minutes ago

Why did I read all of this.

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

Have you ever heard of arch? That's what I use by the way

[-] Peasley@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sabayon Linux

I used it for a few years, great distro. I think it's dead now. It was based on Gentoo but with thoughtful defaults and a very good binary package manager.

also Funtoo Linux, but i never really used it

[-] superkret@feddit.org 30 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 hours ago

From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I’m pretty sure that screenshot is Wayfire, not Weston.

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[-] urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

KISS

it's just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.

Basically LFS on drugs.

[-] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

gobolinux

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

[-] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Gobo Linux has to have been the distro I was looking forward to most too. I really hope it picks up because it's design philosophies. Absolutely phenomenal.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 19 points 7 hours ago

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.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago

We had this as the firewall in our school! I remember bypassing it in so many ways with Google DNS and whatnot.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Any reason to use this over opnsense?

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[-] lancalot@discuss.online 13 points 7 hours ago

Check out the random button on Distrowatch (distrowatch.com/random.php) - it's like a Linux lottery, but you always win something weird!

[-] superkret@feddit.org 9 points 6 hours ago

Let's make this a game. Click on it, then you have to install that on bare metal and daily it for a month.

[-] nnullzz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480..

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 5 hours ago

Got RISC OS

mom, I'm scared

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[-] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 29 points 8 hours ago

Hannah Monata Linux and Red Star from North Korea.

[-] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Woah woah woah, there's a North Korean Linux distribution?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 6 hours ago

Yes, of course. They can hardly use an OS that phones home to the US.

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[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

I'm gonna go with Tom's Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.

[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] mfat@lemdro.id 2 points 4 hours ago
[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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, :(

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

“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!

:(

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