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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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).

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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. πŸ˜‹

    Edit:
    Arh stupid me forgot an obvious one, Gentoo.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Without looking at timeline linked above:

    • NixOS
    • Slackware

    We still have 2 missing...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You also probably have one in your pocket right now. Android.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i don't think of android as Linux anymore since so much was added i bet they did a lot to the kernel to

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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