linuxmemes @lemmy.world 0x4E4F @infosec.pub 1y ago

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Now name 10 distros that aren't based on each other. And yes I'm counting the *buntus as being based on Debian.

If you look at the famous lineage graph there's a fill out there but barely any reinvention of the wheel (not that that's a bad thing).
- Arch, Fedora(Red Hat), Debian, Linux from scratch, Suse.
  
  Goddammit!! That's harder than I thought it would be. Then again I'm a relatively new Linux user, I've only used it since 2005. 😋
  
  Edit:
  Arh stupid me forgot an obvious one, Gentoo.
  
  Without looking at timeline linked above:
  
  NixOS
  
  Slackware
  
  We still have 2 missing...
  
  Void! One more, uhh...
  
  Not being 100% sure but here are my guess :
  
  Alpine linux
  
  Solus
  
  KaOs
  
  I thought of Slackware, as the Original and first distro, but I couldn't remember the name.
  
  Alpine
  
  You also probably have one in your pocket right now. Android.
  
  i don't think of android as Linux anymore since so much was added i bet they did a lot to the kernel to
  
  Actually android can run on a mainline kernel now https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-6-6-pro-mainline-linux-kernel-support/
  
  ohh i didn't know that thanks for some reason my head thought it was a modified version
  
  Although Android uses the Linux kernel, it's not a Linux distro in the original sense. The original sense being that's it a Unix like OS.
  
  I'm pretty sure there isn't an agreed upon definition of Linux distro and android being a distro has been a debate for a long time. Some, like me, see it as a Linux based distributed os.
  
  But I guess we could then say LineageOS since it's even in the Linux distro graph
- The bottom 25% of that graph is all non derivative OS, that's still a lot.
- I swear to Tux I hate how a "distro" is just some base with a different windows manager.
  
  Like....why can't I just change window managers instead of reinstalling everything.
  
  You can, even in such distros. For example, you can run GNOME under Kubuntu.
  
  I installed gnome in my lubuntu install and then removed lxqt
- Void
  
  Gentoo
  
  Slackware
  
  Alpine
  
  Debian
  
  OpenSuse
  
  RHEL
  
  Arch
  
  Bedrock
  
  LFS
  
  NixOS
  
  TinyCore
  
  Edit: no idea what Solus or KaOS are, I had only really heard of them a couple of times.
- Where is EndeavourOS in this 😢
- yeah most distros are the same often the only thing different is the packagemanager and themes oh and bleading edge software vs stable software

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