[sf-lug] Linux distros

[Ehud Kaldor]

>From the days I was watching those, this was my favorite. And by
"favorite"I mean wacky.
http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site/Home.html


On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 19:53 Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Justin Noor (justinnoor.io at gmail.com):
>
> > Honestly I asked out of astonishment.
>
> Yeah, I'm with you.  It really is a little astonishing.  Bobbie pointed
> to part of the reason: diversification into many niches.  However, IMO
> that's nowhere near enough explanation to account for several hundred
> currently active distributions.  IMO, to account for that, you have to
> add a couple of other factors:
>
> 1.  Just because your MyOwnDamneDistro sports distinct branding (e.g., its
> own name) doesn't mean you're doing all the work.  Many distros are only
> very thinly different derivatives of a better-known distribution.
>
> 2.  The urge to tinker and then to put out your own shingle to denote
> the results is widely felt.  Of course, most of the time those results
> become unmaintained pretty quickly; thus Distrowatch's efforts to
> classify the distros it tracks as 'Active', 'Dormant', 'Discontinued',
> etc.
>
> Or, to state it more concisely, it's trivial to declare a vanity distro
> into existence (at least for a while), and so many people do.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Puppy Linux is well known and has a respected history (launched 2003)
> -- even though most people's reasons for using it are delusional and a
> bit sad.[1]   But yes, there are ones every bit as absurd and obscure as
> the imaginary ones comprising the rest of your list.
>
> > For novelty, hobby, or custom distros, Linux From Scratch would seem
> like a
> > wise option.
>
> I could win bar bets, most days, by wagering that the person bringing up
> Linux from Scratch on a mailing list is doing so just in hopes of
> getting some free entertainment value out of the response, and has
> absolutely no idea what it's good for.
>
>
> [1] I could win yet more bar bets wagering that the average person
> installing Puppy Linux to a PeeCee hard drive picked it solely because
> he/she cannot be bothered to figure out how to do anything but a default
> installation, ergo thinks the only way to fit onto an old, small hard
> drive is to use a tiny distribution.
>
>
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