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Rebecca Black OS.
It is the only Linux distro to date built around Weston, using Wayland’s full capability:

It doesn’t include any Rebecca Black theming or is related to her in any way.
It’s just called that cause the dev is a fan of hers.

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42 points

From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.

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12 points

Tell me if has a special “Friday” desktop at least.

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5 points

I’m pretty sure that screenshot is Wayfire, not Weston.

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6 points

right. This is Weston (same distro):

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Oh jeez. I forgot about that. I had that running on my DS back in the day from a GBA flashcart with a big-ass CompactFlash card sticking out the bottom. Good times.

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5 points

Wow, I just realized it was the first Linux I ever used

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2 points

Yes, particularly the variant distributed on a business-card sized CD rom. To be carried in your wallet for emergency use.

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40 points

Hannah Monata Linux and Red Star from North Korea.

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Woah woah woah, there’s a North Korean Linux distribution?

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28 points

Yes, of course. They can hardly use an OS that phones home to the US.

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It’s interesting because it’s essentially the opposite of the idea behind Linux. Using Linux specifically to censor and spy on people is diabolical, but it makes sense why they chose it.

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2 points

A meme Linux is the “most obscure” you can think of?

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4 points

Actually the Red Star developers seem very serious

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30 points

Check out the random button on Distrowatch (distrowatch.com/random.php) - it’s like a Linux lottery, but you always win something weird!

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Let’s make this a game. Click on it, then you have to install that on bare metal and daily it for a month.

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11 points

Got RISC OS

mom, I’m scared

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5 points

Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480…

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1 point

What are you currently using?

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4 points

I got Plamo Linux

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I got portuex, never used Slackware but seems serviceable, I’m just scared of nVidia driver setup haha

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4 points

Ha I got tuxedo OS, hopefully thats not too niche

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That’s what I’ve been running on my gaming machine and it’s been great.

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Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.

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3 points

I got Linux Lite, which I’ve tried in the past.

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Got PakOS, but since I’m not Pakistani I’m not sure how useful it would be

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I got archcraft.

Lucky me. It’s also from India which is fun.

https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=archcraft

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Gentoo. Not that bad for a random pick.

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This distro’s default background isn’t a knockoff of any particular popular non-*nix proprietary operating system’s default background:

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The first one that came to mind was fli4l (Floppy ISDN for Linux). Originally a distro of German origin that fit on a single floppy disk to turn a 386 or 486 PC into a router for ISDN connections. Last I looked it’s still actively worked on.

There are probably tons of more obsuce ones. But this is one I actually used.

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I’ve recently gone through my dad’s floppies and found one with fli4l.

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