Little Known Linux Distributions

hilyard · 01-30-2013, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by 273

For rolling-release cutting-edge I tend to ask "What does it have that Sid Doesn't?" and/or "Does it break less often than Sid?"
Don't get me wrong, I know there are better releases out there than Sid, but I've yet to come across one which makes me want to learn another Distro (I'm sure the same goes for users of Fedora, Slackware Current and others).

I tried gentoo -- made me want to learn Slackware!

Personlly, I have no use for Redhat, but did try Scientific and found it acceptable.

Am now using another one some would not waste their time one, but I find interesting -- Salent OS.

kooru · 01-31-2013, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by FredGSanford

Three of my favorites are

Salix OS
Sourcemage
Crux

The last two may not be for the faint of heart, but heyyyyy!

I don't know Sourcemage, but super-quote for the others two

DavidMcCann · 02-08-2013, 11:11 AM

I've just been trying Caixa Mágica, the official Portuguese distro. I picked the KDE version, even though I've never liked KDE. I was surprised to see they've made a better job of producing an Ububtu derivative with KDE than Mint did. If you're a distro-hopper with a liking for deb systems and KDE, give it a try.

brianL · 02-09-2013, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

I've just been trying Caixa Mágica, the official Portuguese distro...give it a try.

Eu não sei ler Português.
(Thanks, Google Translate)

DavidMcCann · 02-10-2013, 12:24 PM

Caixa Mágica will install in English. Actually, I've never met a distro that wouldn't.

DavidMcCann · 04-01-2013, 12:05 PM

In my hunt through the obscure corners of Distrowatch, I've come up with a nice one lurking among the turkeys: Saluki (my 97th). It's Puppy with extra software, and Xfce instead of JWM. It still barks when you start it, and says "goodbye" when you log out too!