• eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    181·
    5 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.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      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 I know it’s been replaced by dnf but I still think that’s cool.

    • Quazatron@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      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.

  • bigsoup@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Jolicloud. I ran it on an old low-spec netbook in 2013ish, basically a ChromeOS before Chromebooks were a thing. It was discontinued in 2016 but great for the hardware while it lasted.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 hours ago

    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.

    • deafboy@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • Laura@lemmy.ml
    2·
    34 minutes ago

    KISS

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

    Basically LFS on drugs.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    16·
    5 hours 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@lemmy.ml
      1·
      37 minutes ago

      I’ve recently gone through my dad’s floppies and found one with fli4l.

    • juliebean@lemm.ee
      1·
      57 minutes ago

      i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 hours ago

      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

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 hours 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.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
    7·
    4 hours 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.