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A free operating system which initially intrigued me because of it's fundamental philosophies of freedom. Free as in freedom (Libre) and free as in beer (Gratis).

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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• 2016-11-29 - Switched to Devuan 1.0.0-beta
• 2016-03-20ish - I had been checking out a bunch of distributions before switching to Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - Using Lubuntu, last version was 14.04.4 LTS
• 2011-12-12 - I ran through a bunch of testing, but I think most things failed because the USB copies were all getting corrupted. USB is fucking unreliable.
• 2011-? - I had another testing nightmare afterwards.
• 2011-08-12 Linux testing nightmare
• 2010-11-10 Linux testing nightmare
• I used Unity Linux for a bit
• I used PCLinuxOS for some time

• I started with Slackware

Resources ∞

• http://linuxbsdos.com/

• http://distrowatch.com/

getting shit onto a usb stick ∞

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

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/multibootusb/
• http://liveusb.info/dotclear/ perhaps.. it's in .fre

• http://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 ∞

• http://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

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.

• http://www.dynebolic.org/
• http://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
• http://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/
• http://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.

• http://www.gnewsense.org/
• 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)