Have you ever heard of arch? That's what I use by the way
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it's just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.
Basically LFS on drugs.
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.
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480..
Got RISC OS
mom, I'm scared
Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.
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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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
I used Sabayon for a bit too. It was basically "Gentoo made easy" with a simpler installer and as you said a binarypackage manager rather than compiling packages from source. It's wasn't 100% completely dead after dropping the Sabayon branding, it morphed into Mocaccino Linux, but when they did so they re-based it on Funtoo, which is also now dead.
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.
Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.
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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
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Wsl just because it is from ms.
WSL isn’t a distro.
I think you mean Azure Linux ( formerly CBL Mariner ):
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.
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The first one that came to mind was fli4l (Floppy ISDN for Linux). Originally a distro of German origin that fit on a single floppy disk to turn a 386 or 486 PC into a router for ISDN connections. Last I looked it's still actively worked on.
There are probably tons of more obsuce ones. But this is one I actually used.
I've recently gone through my dad's floppies and found one with fli4l.
I'm gonna go with Tom's Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.
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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!
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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.
Doesn't Pop!OS do that already?
And Ubuntu, no? Wasn’t that the big selling point of Ubuntu back in the day?
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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.
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DSL is basically an Antix spin now ( which is itself basically just Debian ).
Gentoo still exists 🙂
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.
Rarely hear about DSL anymore, http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
That was my go-to long ago
It was dead for a long time, was replaced in spirit by Puppy Linux, and only recently was reactivated.
most obscure and to me coolest but unfortunately not very active https://sourcemage.org/
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