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…
I thought of Slackware, as the Original and first distro, but I couldn’t remember the name.
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 don’t think of android as Linux anymore since so much was added i bet they did a lot to the kernel to
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.
