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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).

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What's the most obscure distro you can think of (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

most obscure and to me coolest but unfortunately not very active https://sourcemage.org/

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

i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it's not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.

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

I think its obscure but some wierdos geek out on it :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I remember reading about it like 10 years ago along with LunarLinux (e: and sorcerer) as was curious about other source based linux distros. I thought both were dead, glad that at least sourcemage is still alive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

its always a bit hard to tell with source distros.