Jarro Negro. Made by Mexican students. And as far as I know, it’s independent, not based on another distro.
postmarketOS. Way too underrated.
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.
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
automatically includes all the proprietary stuff
Jail.
Doesn’t Pop!OS do that already?
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 imagine there was a time when this wasn’t obscure, but I’m guessing people today don’t remember Caldera OpenLinux. That was the first Linux distro I installed/used. A guy from church gave his copy.
Caldera eventually became SCO. But I’m pretty sure I was using Caldera OpenLinux before the whole Novell patent suit thing.
I never used Caldera Linux but I did use their DOS for a while.
Speaking of old, dead distros, my first Linux – sort of – was TurboLinux 6.0. I say “sort of” because I never successfully got it to install and run. : (
If being usable is a metric, Slackware
Hardly obscure.
How many ppl do you see rocking Slackware nowadays?
Still hardly obscure and usage metric is anything but precise. Slackware doesn’t have something like Debian’s popularity contest and distrowatch only meters page visits.
Kolibri
Kolibri isn’t a Linux distro, it is a fork of MenuetOS and not Linux at all
Thanks, I didn’t know that.
Np, another OS that isn’t Linux based, it’s rather obscure-ish but it’s genuinely impressive is Haiku OS, the community-driven spiritual successor of BeOS
No one mentioned Bunsenlabs or Crunchbang Linux here, but they aren’t really that obscure.
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.
Not obscure but I love hyprland
Also not a distro.
Wow, I just realized it was the first Linux I ever used
Yes, particularly the variant distributed on a business-card sized CD rom. To be carried in your wallet for emergency use.
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.
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
Wait… they’re militant enough about Free Software to refuse to package anything even slightly non-Free, but their “final goal” is to switch the kernel to BSD (i.e. away from copyleft)? WTF?
but their “final goal” is to switch the kernel to BSD (i.e. away from copyleft)?
HyperbolaBSD is a hard fork, that relicenses the OpenBSD kernel as GPL (as permitted by permissive licenses.)
HyperbolaBSD has already dug into the OpenBSD source tree and discovered numerous licensing issues.
HyperbolaBSD will be a truly libre distro that takes advantage of copyleft, while moving away from the major issues Linux is stepping into too.
Ah, that’s different then!
Hmm…
From https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en%3Amanual%3Acontrib%3Ahyperbolabsd_faq:
HyperbolaBSD is under a progressive migration by replacing all non GPL-compatible code. It will be replaced with new compatible code under Simplified BSD License. We do this in order to incorporate GPL code from other projects such as ReactOS, as well new code from scratch.
It’s not clear to me that relicensing the existing code to GPL is what they’re planning on doing; it sounds more like they’re going to mix in GPL code but not change the existing files to GPL en masse after they finish harmonizing them to two-clause BSD.
Frankly, IMO that’s too bad: I’d love to see them make the whole shebang GPLv3-or-later
Related question: is all Linux kernel code required to be licensed GPLv2-only, or are individual contributions allowed to be GPLv2-or-later? I’d be nice to see if that project (and stuff like HURD and ReactOS) could benefit from at least some Linux contributions, even if they can’t copy it wholesale.
It’s an ancient divide in parts of the FOSS community that believes copyleft licenses are not “free” because they force you to license contributions under the same license.
Yeah, I know, but I would’ve expected a distro that describes itself as “GNU/Linux-libre” would fall on the other side of it!
Wow, you weren’t kidding.
Why did I read all of this.
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
Why so much rage?
Yes, Hyperbola is very ideological and super strict, but it was always meant to be that way - to provide a system that works in some way and at the same time is as ethical and “clean” as possible. Some people value it over anything, and for them, Hyperbola is a good pick.
was that translated into english from another language?
I love how they blended FAQ with meth-induced psychosis rambling.
I’ve gotta give them kudos for sticking to their very strict values, but holy hell is this hard to parse
Wsl just because it is from ms.
WSL isn’t a distro.
I think you mean Azure Linux ( formerly CBL Mariner ):
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
Chimera Linux
I had not noticed that KDE is available for Chimera now. Very cool.
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.
