Linux distributions based on Unity Linux

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Granular Linux

2009-04-17
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Granular Linux logo from Twitter

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(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=granular
https://web.archive.org/web/20200122090827/http://www.granularlinux.com/
https://granularproject.org/

I knew about Granular Linux only through Unity Linux.  It ended up being a recommendation as a base system from which I could compile various window managers[doesn’t exist] for testing.  Well, after having exhausted so many other distributions lately, I decided to give it a shot.  Since I had been so dismissive of my earlier efforts, I decided to spend more time with this one.

  • 2014-08-02 – It’s gone.

  • Was to have switched to Unity Linux, but I don’t think it did.



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Oldschool Linux

2009-01-01
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This was a working logo
This was a working logo

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Oldschool Linux was to have been usable as a general-purpose light Linux distribution, with a focus on oldschool platform and operating system emulation/virtualization, demos, games, art and music.

Its target era was to be pre-Windows: DOS, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari, etc. Software will be Linux-native where possible, but two-stage software will be examined .. such as emulating DOS to run a DOS program.

  1. Platform Emulation (DOS: DOSBox and DOSEMU, other platforms like Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari)
  2. Console Platform Emulation (Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Arcade, etc)
  3. Virtualization
  4. Oldschool demos (intros, demos, megademos, democomp-related stuff)
  5. Art (ASCII, ANSI, pixel, etc)
  6. Oldschool music (MODs etc, Commodore SIDs, and more)

  7. Games (Free, not abandonware – either platform-specific, console or arcade games)

    • This is a secondary interest.

It was to be a consumer distribution, and not a producer distribution. To be distributed with media viewers/players as well as actual content. It was to be a branch off of the Unity Linux base. It never made it past the planning stages.

Oldschool-Windows and producer editions were far-future ideas.



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