Sunshine@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 10 hours agoWhat are the more obscure independent linux distros?message-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up145file-text
arrow-up145message-squareWhat are the more obscure independent linux distros?Sunshine@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 hours agoBuildroot, Alpine and OpenWRT Just a word of warning: be careful of some of the more obscure distros as they tend to get behind on security updates
minus-squareTehPers@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoAlpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven’t considered running it as a desktop OS.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoI wouldn’t personally use it on the desktop. If it ran systemd I’d consider it for servers.
Buildroot, Alpine and OpenWRT
Just a word of warning: be careful of some of the more obscure distros as they tend to get behind on security updates
Alpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven’t considered running it as a desktop OS.
I wouldn’t personally use it on the desktop. If it ran systemd I’d consider it for servers.