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.
There was this distro that stuffs everything of a package in one folder, instead of /usr/lib & co. What was it called again?
Gobolinux?
Right, thanks!
No one ever mentions Crux Linux
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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 People always go “It looks like MacOS” but to me esp the icons just look like outdated Linux Mint/Cinnamon from 15 years ago.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.
Yellow Dog
I actually ran this on a PPC Mac back in the day
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
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.
Not obscure but I love hyprland
Also not a distro.
Clear Linux.
postmarketOS. Way too underrated.
Thank you 🤗 I hope not too many people see us as obscure though…
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…
templeos /j
Obscure as in “only for a very specific purpose and nothing else”?..
Well, there is the Mircrosoft linux distro for their azure cloud
I guess DD-WRT as distro for router is also kind of obscure. Or the more general openWRT for embedded systems.
Everybody knows glorious leader’s operating system. 😉
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.
I’ve recently gone through my dad’s floppies and found one with fli4l.
Windows 11
