Probably KaOS. It puts a strong focus on KDE and Qt.
As in, it doesn’t package programs using different GUI toolkits, aside from the most popular, like Firefox and GIMP. When I tried it a few years ago, you also had to enable a separate repo to get access to these.Reminds me of chakra linux. Same principals, except built on top of Arch base, and the other toolkit apps were distributed as self contained image files.
Right. Cjakra and KaOS were two I was following the developments as a KDE lover. Too bad none got popular enough, and Chakra even died :(
Bohdi linux. smoll and beautiful. Used to run it on my eeepc 701
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.
That’s a blast from the past! I used to run #! On my 701…
KISS
it’s just a single bash script and a repository containing package definitions to compile them from source.
Basically LFS on drugs.
Interesting, was searching for anybody who mentioned LFS/Linux From Scratch leading here. Doesn’t seem active anymore though.
Linux STD! Waaaay before skiddos had backtrack or kali
That’s an…interesting name.
Security Tools Distribution :)
floppyfw : turn a floppy into a firewall
Wait what? :o
Floppy distros were all the rage. Here’s another one, still got a few floppies of it floating around the lab!
C programming language also uses STD in a lot of the standard library names (short for standard). I wonder if the creators of both didn’t realize when they named it or did and thought it was funny. My bet is the latter.
No one ever mentions Crux Linux
Everybody knows glorious leader’s operating system. 😉
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.
automatically includes all the proprietary stuff
Jail.
They’ve been able to figure it out so far
First I’m hearing of it. I’ma try it out
It made me lazy since they got everything to work out of the box. Lol
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 People always go “It looks like MacOS” but to me esp the icons just look like outdated Linux Mint/Cinnamon from 15 years ago.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.
Doesn’t Pop!OS do that already?
Yes, as far as they’re allowed to in this country
And Ubuntu, no? Wasn’t that the big selling point of Ubuntu back in the day?
I feel like the Enlightenment desktop environment isn’t to everyone’s taste. It’s definitely got some idiosyncratic design choices…
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.
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
most obscure and to me coolest but unfortunately not very active https://sourcemage.org/
i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.
I think its obscure but some wierdos geek out on it :)
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
its always a bit hard to tell with source distros.
SLiTaz
It’s an obscure originally live usage oriented distro that you could also install. It was the first *Nix I ever used.
it was for a time a distro i was really big on on account of how small it could be on live media. absolutely fantastic for very old pcs and netbooks, too
Not so obscure, just 50mb and very functional, in between tiny core and puppy.
Yellow Dog
I actually ran this on a PPC Mac back in the day
Someone gave me a PowerMac and of course I had to try to run Linux. It was an interesting experience, it would boot to MacOS and then run the Yellow Dog bootloader. Couldn’t get it to boot directly. That little experiment showed me how tightly Apple controlled what would run on Apple machines back then.
That was the my first distro. Getting it to run off a FireWire drive was an interesting introduction to Linux.
Fun fact: yum stands for Yellow dog Update Manager. I know it’s been replaced by dnf but I still think that’s cool.
I ran yellowdog on my PS3 until they took away the otherOS
Meego, a combination of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo. It only ever shipped on one device, the Nokia N9.
I much enjoyed it back in the day. Nokia even had their own app store for it and gave a nice financial incentive for the first hundred or thousand apps.
I feel Jolla & SailfishOS is the spiritual successor.
Clear Linux.
Check out the random button on Distrowatch (distrowatch.com/random.php) - it’s like a Linux lottery, but you always win something weird!
Gentoo. Not that bad for a random pick.
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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
I got Plamo Linux
Got RISC OS
mom, I’m scared
Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480…
What are you currently using?
On that ThinkPad, LMDE.
I got Linux Lite, which I’ve tried in the past.
Got PakOS, but since I’m not Pakistani I’m not sure how useful it would be
I got archcraft.
Lucky me. It’s also from India which is fun.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=archcraft
Ha I got tuxedo OS, hopefully thats not too niche
That’s what I’ve been running on my gaming machine and it’s been great.
That’s nice to hear!
This distro’s default background isn’t a knockoff of any particular popular non-*nix proprietary operating system’s default background:
templeos /j
I’m gonna go with Tom’s Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.
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.
Don’t think so either but it has withered away.
