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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

2 days ago my friend found an old SATA hard drive and gave it to me to check what's on it, and me, not having a disk station or anything, and against all better judgment, I just swapped the disk in my laptop for my friend's, and instead of my laptop being fried it turned out the disk was running something called Crunchbang Linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

I used to run Reborn OS at around 2017 for a few years. It used Cnchi installer, just like Antergos, and when Antergos died, I saw Reborn as its successor. But the title went to Endeavour (why?) and Reborn never got popularity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Limiting to those I have used daily and treated as Linux (used the terminal for example) probably Maemo. I used to carry my Nokia Internet Tablet 770, and then my N800 everywhere with me.

Maemo is also an ancestor of both Tizen and Sailfish OS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No one mentioned Bunsenlabs or Crunchbang Linux here, but they aren't really that obscure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Archbang maybe more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I see no one has mentioned Bedrock Linux yet. Not sure though how others would rate its 'obscurity' though. It's definitely a standout among distros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

SLiTaz

It's an obscure originally live usage oriented distro that you could also install. It was the first *Nix I ever used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

United Linux - the famous Red Hat Enterprise Linux killer!

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I worked on that.

It was SuSe with any branding or tools ripped out, the carcass kicked over the fence for the rest of us to try to make an OS out of.

It had no chance. What we got was a bleeding corpse after SuSE had a sellable product to compete against us all with.

It killed turbo, it killed conectiva and it killed openlinux. Horrible thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wsl just because it is from ms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

WSL isn’t a distro.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

hyperbola

they have a wiki with insane nonsens about why they don't package certain things

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en%3Aphilosophy%3Aincompatible_packages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

was that translated into english from another language?

I love how they blended FAQ with meth-induced psychosis rambling.

I've gotta give them kudos for sticking to their very strict values, but holy hell is this hard to parse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Certain things? Fucking luddite idiots don't package 99.9% of software.

AIX Unix from the 1980s is literally more useful than that heap of garbage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Why so much rage?

Yes, Hyperbola is very ideological and super strict, but it was always meant to be that way - to provide a system that works in some way and at the same time is as ethical and "clean" as possible. Some people value it over anything, and for them, Hyperbola is a good pick.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Why did I read all of this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

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

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