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.
  
  Slackware wasn't the first distro, it was based on SLS (Softlanding Linux System).
  Yggdrasil is also older.
  
  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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