• @[email protected]
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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

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      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.

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    18 months ago

    Feren OS, a linux distro focused in customization. Started as a Linux Mint derivative, is now based on Ubuntu and/or Debian (I’m not really sure)

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    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

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      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.

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        You may wish to look into NixOS or GNU Guix as taking the same ideas to the logical conclusion, or stal/ix which aspires to take a more traditional approach and in that way is perhaps closer to Gobo. All three are very much alive and actively maintained, even thriving by some metrics.

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      I hear you saying “not compatible with FHS” but then extra words I no longer need to hear.

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      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

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        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.

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      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?

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        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.

        https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/~team/documentation/todo.git/tree/openbsd_kernel-file-list-with-license-issues.md

        HyperbolaBSD will be a truly libre distro that takes advantage of copyleft, while moving away from the major issues Linux is stepping into too.

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          Ah, that’s different then!

          Hmm…

          From https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:contrib:hyperbolabsd_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.

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        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.

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          No one thinks this. Even permissively licensed BSD operating systems package GPL software and accept it as Free Software.

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          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!

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      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

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    Sabayon Linux. I’m not sure if it’s still releasing updates, the main website is dead. It was based on Gentoo and later funtoo, but had a package manager of precompiled binaries. You could still use emerge if you wanted to. Definitely a weird and interesting distro

    Blend OS is trying to do the declarative nixos thing but with an arch base. That’s pretty cool.

    ClearOS was Intel’s attempt at an immutable os. From what I remember it was really fast.

    Edit: actually it clear Linux not clearOS. Edit: also clear Linux is stateless. I don’t know, there’s a lot about it I don’t understand

  • Laura
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    KISS

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

    Basically LFS on drugs.

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      Interesting, was searching for anybody who mentioned LFS/Linux From Scratch leading here. Doesn’t seem active anymore though.

    • Akatsuki Levi
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      48 months ago

      Kolibri isn’t a Linux distro, it is a fork of MenuetOS and not Linux at all

      • mFat
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        28 months ago

        Thanks, I didn’t know that.

        • Akatsuki Levi
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          28 months ago

          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

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    2 days ago my friend found an old SATA hard drive and gave it to me to check what’s on it, and me, not having a disk station or anything, and against all better judgment, I just swapped the disk in my laptop for my friend’s, and instead of my laptop being fried it turned out the disk was running something called Crunchbang Linux