• superkret@feddit.org
    74·
    6 days ago

    Rebecca Black OS.
    It is the only Linux distro to date built around Weston, using Wayland’s full capability:

    It doesn’t include any Rebecca Black theming or is related to her in any way.
    It’s just called that cause the dev is a fan of hers.

    • markstos@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 days ago

      Yes, particularly the variant distributed on a business-card sized CD rom. To be carried in your wallet for emergency use.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      Oh jeez. I forgot about that. I had that running on my DS back in the day from a GBA flashcart with a big-ass CompactFlash card sticking out the bottom. Good times.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Not super obscure, but not many talk about it. Q4OS, I love it, a perfect windows replacement down to even imitating the old style windows installer. Plus it’s Debian based so it has a lot of support. I plan on moving my grandparents to it when windows 10 gets fully discontinued as their current rig doesn’t support 11

  • A7thStone@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 days ago

    Meego, a combination of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo. It only ever shipped on one device, the Nokia N9.

    • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 days ago

      I much enjoyed it back in the day. Nokia even had their own app store for it and gave a nice financial incentive for the first hundred or thousand apps.

      I feel Jolla & SailfishOS is the spiritual successor.

        • countrypunk@slrpnk.netOP
          910·
          6 days ago

          It’s interesting because it’s essentially the opposite of the idea behind Linux. Using Linux specifically to censor and spy on people is diabolical, but it makes sense why they chose it.

          • superkret@feddit.org
            321·
            6 days ago

            The idea behind Linux is to create an operating system anyone can use in any way they want.
            That includes the North Korean government using it to spy on their people.

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              5 days ago

              Sounds more like a BSD kind of idea, to be honest. The GNU idea is to let specifically end-users have control over their own computer, not some third-party.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    30·
    6 days ago

    Smoothwall. I used to run it a lot back in the early 2000s for personal use and even helped set up a couple small businesses with it but I don’t hear of anyone else using it these days, people seem to love openwrt and pfsense more.

    It was great for just taking any old x86 machine and making a powerful, fully featured firewall/router out of it, including a VPN server, all through a web interface. Nowadays that’s boring shit but in 2002 it was pretty cool.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    33·
    6 days 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
      10·
      6 days ago

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

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Wait… they’re militant enough about Free Software to refuse to package anything even slightly non-Free, but their “final goal” is to switch the kernel to BSD (i.e. away from copyleft)? WTF?

      • cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        8·
        5 days ago

        but their “final goal” is to switch the kernel to BSD (i.e. away from copyleft)?

        HyperbolaBSD is a hard fork, that relicenses the OpenBSD kernel as GPL (as permitted by permissive licenses.)

        HyperbolaBSD has already dug into the OpenBSD source tree and discovered numerous licensing issues.

        https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/~team/documentation/todo.git/tree/openbsd_kernel-file-list-with-license-issues.md

        HyperbolaBSD will be a truly libre distro that takes advantage of copyleft, while moving away from the major issues Linux is stepping into too.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          Ah, that’s different then!

          Hmm…

          From https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en%3Amanual%3Acontrib%3Ahyperbolabsd_faq:

          HyperbolaBSD is under a progressive migration by replacing all non GPL-compatible code. It will be replaced with new compatible code under Simplified BSD License. We do this in order to incorporate GPL code from other projects such as ReactOS, as well new code from scratch.

          It’s not clear to me that relicensing the existing code to GPL is what they’re planning on doing; it sounds more like they’re going to mix in GPL code but not change the existing files to GPL en masse after they finish harmonizing them to two-clause BSD.

          Frankly, IMO that’s too bad: I’d love to see them make the whole shebang GPLv3-or-later

          Related question: is all Linux kernel code required to be licensed GPLv2-only, or are individual contributions allowed to be GPLv2-or-later? I’d be nice to see if that project (and stuff like HURD and ReactOS) could benefit from at least some Linux contributions, even if they can’t copy it wholesale.

      • servobobo@feddit.nl
        5·
        5 days ago

        It’s an ancient divide in parts of the FOSS community that believes copyleft licenses are not “free” because they force you to license contributions under the same license.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, I know, but I would’ve expected a distro that describes itself as “GNU/Linux-libre” would fall on the other side of it!

        • cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          5 days ago

          No one thinks this. Even permissively licensed BSD operating systems package GPL software and accept it as Free Software.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      51·
      5 days ago

      was that translated into english from another language?

      I love how they blended FAQ with meth-induced psychosis rambling.

      I’ve gotta give them kudos for sticking to their very strict values, but holy hell is this hard to parse

    • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
      74·
      5 days ago

      Certain things? Fucking luddite idiots don’t package 99.9% of software.

      AIX Unix from the 1980s is literally more useful than that heap of garbage

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        71·
        5 days ago

        Why so much rage?

        Yes, Hyperbola is very ideological and super strict, but it was always meant to be that way - to provide a system that works in some way and at the same time is as ethical and “clean” as possible. Some people value it over anything, and for them, Hyperbola is a good pick.

    • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      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.

  • dai@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 days ago

    dyne:bolic - specifically 1.4.1

    Had support for the original Xbox, a multimedia editing / streaming focussed OS. I’d never run it on mine - just messed with xdsl before going back to XBMC.

  • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
    23·
    6 days ago

    gobolinux

    it’s main feature is that it completely redefines the system’s root directory structure. the only reason i even know it exists is because i’m friends with one of the creators

    • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Gobo Linux has to have been the distro I was looking forward to most too. I really hope it picks up because it’s design philosophies. Absolutely phenomenal.

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 days ago

        You may wish to look into NixOS or GNU Guix as taking the same ideas to the logical conclusion, or stal/ix which aspires to take a more traditional approach and in that way is perhaps closer to Gobo. All three are very much alive and actively maintained, even thriving by some metrics.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    271·
    6 days 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.

  • Fatur_New@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Longene Linux. Linux-based operating system kernel intended to be binary compatible with application software and device drivers made for Microsoft Windows and Linux.