• @Peasley
    1•22 minutes ago

    Sabayon Linux

    I used it for a few years, great distro. I think it’s dead now.

    also Funtoo Linux, but i never really used it

  • @Cheems
    3•1 hour ago

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

  • Laura
    3•2 hours ago

    KISS

    it’s just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.

    Basically LFS on drugs.

  • @[email protected]
    17•4 hours 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
      7•2 hours ago

      From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.

    • @tekato
      1•3 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure that screenshot is Wayfire, not Weston.

  • TimeSquirrel
    14•4 hours 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.

    • Quazatron
      4•4 hours ago

      Good old Smoothie. Served me well back then. I think it went commercial at some point.

  • beleza pura
    6•3 hours ago

    gobolinux

    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

  • Quazatron
    6•4 hours ago

    I’m gonna go with Tom’s Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 hour ago

      Didn’t think Knoppix was obscure, but that was my gateway to Linux first on all my personal PCs.

      I guess the years have passed it by.

        • @[email protected]OP
          3•4 hours ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
            12•4 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
    10•5 hours ago

    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, :(

    • monovergent 🏁
      4•4 hours ago

      “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!

      :(

  • @[email protected]English
    19•7 hours 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.