Linux + Operating Systems >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/

Linux is an umbrella concept/base from which free operating systems are produced.

These initially intrigued me because of fundamental philosophies of freedom. Free as in freedom (Libre) and free as in beer (Gratis). Now it's also about ease of use.

Note that you can remaster a distribution into your own customized one, with its own software, etc.

• aka distro(s)

See also:

• Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick
• BSD distributions

• Software

  • /tag/linux+software

• Window managers

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Distribution	Last tested	LiveUSB	Package Management	Rolling Release	systemd?	Ease
Slackware	2016-03-25 - 14.1	text installer	partial + third-party	security	No (1, 2, 3)	"other"
Lubuntu	2016-03-25 - 14.04.4 LTS	yes	yes	yes	yes	easy, light

(I may get around to updating this table for other distributions, or expanding it.)

See also:

• my complete list
• My ideal Linux distribution

• Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick

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• Zaurus SL-C1000 > Zaurus distributions

My timeline ∞

These are not complete, and I have bunches of install notes which have dates which might eventually get added to this list.

Resources ∞

• https://linuxbsdos.com/

• https://distrowatch.com/

Getting shit onto a USB stick ∞

• "Resetting" a USB stick
• Making a USB stick bootable
• Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick

• Linux distribution booting from a USB drive which has a Windows-viewable partition

linux ∞

isohybrid is a mandatory tool for those distributions which don't provide an ISO which can be directly burned to a USB stick.

\sudo  \dd  bs=4M  if=filename.iso  of=/dev/sdb

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/multibootusb/

• http://liveusb.info/dotclear/

  • Perhaps, but it's in .fre

• https://www.pendrivelinux.com/multiboot-create-a-multiboot-usb-from-linux/ etc..

misc ∞

• BackTrack Linux -- Penetration Testing
• Tails -- Tor-focused

• Gangbang -- many window managers on a bootable iso

  • This seemed cool when I checked it out probably in 2014-2015.

To check out ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220306034255/https://project-trident.org/

  • Simple, GUI
  • Abandoned

• https://librecmc.org/

  • Low-resource computers (like routers)

• USU Linux (УСУ)

  • https://sourceforge.net/projects/usuproject/

• https://www.linuxconsole.org/

  • lightweight distribution for children and kids
• Note that several in /tag/linux-distributions should be tried again, especially since SystemRescueCD will fix a broken GRUB/LILO bootloader.
• Rescatux / Super Grub2 Disk

• NixOS

Free GNU/Linux distributions ∞

/tag/free-gnulinux-distributions

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

I've seen nothing good.

[abandoned] dyne:bolic ∞

As of 2016-04-16 was last updated 2011-09-08.

• www.dynebolic.org/
• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=dynebolic

• dyne:bolic

Based on Ubuntu.

[dormant] Dragora ∞

As of 2016-04-16 was last updated 2012-04-24.

• http://www.dragora.org/en/index.html
• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=dragora

• Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre

[dormant, Spanish] Utuo ∞

As of 2016-04-16 was last updated 2012-04-17.

Seems to have entirely Spanish documentation

• http://www.ututo.org/
• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ututo

• Ututo

systemd is maintained as an alternate (gentoo docs).

[dormant] gNewSense ∞

As of 2016-04-16 was last updated 2014-02-09.

• https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html  ^[ 1 ] 
• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gNewSense

• gNewSense

Based on Debian.

Musix ∞

• https://musixdistro.wordpress.com/
• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=musix

• Musix GNU+Linux

Based on Knoppix (Debian)

Footnotes

1. was http://www.gnewsense.org/ - [↩]