- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 51•1 month 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 ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) 36•1 month ago
From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.
- Melatonin ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 11•1 month ago
Tell me if has a special “Friday” desktop at least.
- sasquash ( @sasquash@sopuli.xyz ) 30•1 month ago
Hannah Monata Linux and Red Star from North Korea.
Woah woah woah, there’s a North Korean Linux distribution?
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 25•1 month ago
Yes, of course. They can hardly use an OS that phones home to the US.
It’s interesting because it’s essentially the opposite of the idea behind Linux. Using Linux specifically to censor and spy on people is diabolical, but it makes sense why they chose it.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 20•1 month ago
The idea behind Linux is to create an operating system anyone can use in any way they want.
That includes the North Korean government using it to spy on their people.
- lancalot ( @lancalot@discuss.online ) English26•1 month 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 ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 16•1 month 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.
- Auster ( @Auster@thebrainbin.org ) 9•1 month ago
Got RISC OS
mom, I’m scared
- JustARegularNerd ( @JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ) English6•1 month ago
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480…
- 0x0 ( @0x0@programming.dev ) 1•1 month ago
What are you currently using?
- JustARegularNerd ( @JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ) English2•1 month ago
On that ThinkPad, LMDE.
- Melatonin ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•1 month ago
I got Plamo Linux
- icogniito ( @icogniito@lemmy.zip ) English4•1 month ago
I got portuex, never used Slackware but seems serviceable, I’m just scared of nVidia driver setup haha
- bobs_monkey ( @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ) 3•1 month ago
Got PakOS, but since I’m not Pakistani I’m not sure how useful it would be
- JetpackJackson ( @JetpackJackson@feddit.org ) 3•1 month ago
Ha I got tuxedo OS, hopefully thats not too niche
- notthebees ( @notthebees@reddthat.com ) 2•1 month ago
I got archcraft.
Lucky me. It’s also from India which is fun.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=archcraft
- Samsy ( @Samsy@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 month ago
Gentoo. Not that bad for a random pick.
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English2•1 month ago
This distro’s default background isn’t a knockoff of any particular popular non-*nix proprietary operating system’s default background:
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) 25•1 month ago
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.
- Laura ( @urfavlaura@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 month ago
I’ve recently gone through my dad’s floppies and found one with fli4l.
- TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org ) 22•1 month 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 ( @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•1 month ago
We had this as the firewall in our school! I remember bypassing it in so many ways with Google DNS and whatnot.
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 1•1 month ago
Any reason to use this over opnsense?
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) English20•1 month ago
elive
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.
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) 10•1 month ago
Doesn’t Pop!OS do that already?
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 month ago
Yes, as far as they’re allowed to in this country
- Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 month ago
I feel like the Enlightenment desktop environment isn’t to everyone’s taste. It’s definitely got some idiosyncratic design choices…
- mitrosus ( @mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 month ago
Its unpopularity may be related to that it asks money or a positive review in a blog to even try. Used to be so a few years ago.
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 month ago
i wasn’t aware that it had changed like that; i stopped using it when i switch to linux laptops from linux companies like tuxedo and system76
- secret300 ( @secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 month ago
First I’m hearing of it. I’ma try it out
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 month ago
It made me lazy since they got everything to work out of the box. Lol
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 1•1 month ago
This. People always go “It looks like MacOS” but to me esp the icons just look like outdated Linux Mint/Cinnamon from 15 years ago. If people like ot that’s cool, it’s just not for me.
- beleza pura ( @bunitor@lemmy.eco.br ) 19•1 month ago
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 ( @drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 month 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.
- balsoft ( @balsoft@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 month ago
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 month ago
I hear you saying “not compatible with FHS” but then extra words I no longer need to hear.
- Laura ( @urfavlaura@lemmy.ml ) 13•1 month ago
KISS
it’s just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.
Basically LFS on drugs.
- utopiah ( @utopiah@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 month ago
Interesting, was searching for anybody who mentioned LFS/Linux From Scratch leading here. Doesn’t seem active anymore though.
- pokexpert30 ( @pokexpert30@lemmy.pussthecat.org ) 11•1 month ago
Bohdi linux. smoll and beautiful. Used to run it on my eeepc 701
- C A B B A G E ( @ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ) English3•1 month ago
That’s a blast from the past! I used to run #! On my 701…
- Edgarallenpwn ( @Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social ) English3•1 month ago
Bohdi is pretty nice. Needed a Linux test device at a job a few years ago and for some reason this was one of the only ones approved. Was pretty solid for the few times I needed to use it.
- MonkderVierte ( @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 month ago
- data1701d (He/Him) ( @data1701d@startrek.website ) English5•1 month ago
Everybody knows glorious leader’s operating system. 😉
- StrawberryPigtails ( @StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•1 month ago
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.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 6•1 month ago
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.
- 0x0 ( @0x0@programming.dev ) 3•1 month ago
Gentoo’s forums are quite active and it’s one of my daily drivers. I think the others kinda faded away.
- OhNoMoreLemmy ( @OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 month ago
There was a bunch of weird rebadged Ubuntu derivatives back in the day.
Ubuntu satanic edition. https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-satanic/
Ubuntu Christian edition. https://archiveos.org/ubuntu-christian/
Hannah Montana Linux https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/
- Flax ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) English5•1 month ago
Ubuntu CE outlived Ubuntu Satanic. W.
- OhNoMoreLemmy ( @OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 month ago
Technically it died and was resurrected.
- icerunner_origin ( @icerunner_origin@startrek.website ) 8•1 month ago
Take your pick from the Linux family tree
- pr06lefs ( @pr06lefs@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 month ago
I don’t see nixos in there!
- mrmetaverse ( @mrmetaverse@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 month ago
Should hyprland be in the table or are Wayland Compositors ignored? 👀
- JetpackJackson ( @JetpackJackson@feddit.org ) 1•1 month ago
Man artix isnt there
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 8•1 month ago
most obscure and to me coolest but unfortunately not very active https://sourcemage.org/
- juliebean ( @juliebean@lemm.ee ) 2•1 month ago
i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.
- HubertManne ( @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ) 2•1 month ago
I think its obscure but some wierdos geek out on it :)
- Dustwin ( @Dustwin@lemmy.ca ) English8•1 month ago
Rarely hear about DSL anymore, http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 4•1 month ago
It was dead for a long time, was replaced in spirit by Puppy Linux, and only recently was reactivated.