[sf-lug] Linux distros

[Justin Noor]

“Noor Linux 1.0” hah. I like it.

Honestly I asked out of astonishment. I’ve been so enveloped in my own
bubble, I guess lost touch with all these new distros. Until recently I had
never heard of distros like Puppy, Big Dog, Slack Dog, Wack Dog,
Cappuccino, Frappaccino, Parakeet, Beaver, Crab, and the other few hundred.

For novelty, hobby, or custom distros, Linux From Scratch would seem like a
wise option.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:59 PM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Justin Noor (justinnoor.io at gmail.com):
>
> > Hey Bobble off the top of your head, roughly how many Linux distros do
> you
> > think exist?
>
> Distrowatch over the past month has tracked 306 distros that it deems
> active.  https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
>
> However, there's a definitional problem.  What do you deem sufficiently
> distinctive and substantive to count?  Consider:
>
> Step 1:  Download the latest release of your favourite distro.
> Step 2:  Make some trivial change.
> Step 3:  Declare the result to be the 'Noorix' Linux distribution.
>
> Most distros now deemed real, distinctive, and substantive started
> pretty much like that -- but continued to develop and be maintained.
> But how distinctive and substantive (and how active) such a named effort
> must be before it's deemed something more than a novelty one-off fork,
> ah, now that's a judgement call.
>
> Many would nonetheless opine that a sizeable percentage of Distrowatch's
> 306 distros _are_ just novelty items, and not worthy of taking
> seriously.
>
> Why do you ask?
>
>
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