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.
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It's an obscure originally live usage oriented distro that you could also install. It was the first *Nix I ever used.
United Linux - the famous Red Hat Enterprise Linux killer!
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.
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.
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%3Aphilosophy%3Aincompatible_packages
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
Wow, you weren’t kidding.
Why did I read all of this.
Wsl just because it is from ms.
WSL isn’t a distro.
I think you mean Azure Linux ( formerly CBL Mariner ):
Have you ever heard of arch? That's what I use by the way
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.
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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.
KISS
it's just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.
Basically LFS on drugs.
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
I hear you saying "not compatible with FHS" but then extra words I no longer need to hear.
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.
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.
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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.
I got portuex, never used Slackware but seems serviceable, I’m just scared of nVidia driver setup haha
Got PakOS, but since I'm not Pakistani I'm not sure how useful it would be
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.
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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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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, :(
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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.
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