Less popular distros

Does anyone use any distro besides the big names like Debian, red hat, Arch and their derivatives?

What are your thoughts on it?

I've been using solus for a few days and it's really nice so far. Software repository could be bigger, but it has everything I need.
Plus this is the first distro one used in which midori isn't a crashing mess.

It's also pretty nice and lightweight, uses 400MB ram on boot.

Built from the ground up with its own package manager and DE which I really like too. I'm going to stick with this distro for a while I think.

Sorry if I come off as a shill, but this is my new favorite distro and DE.

Pic related is a random image of the budgie desktop from google. Not going to post my own desktop for obvious reasons.

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etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
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Slitaz I use.

Thoughts?
That's really lightweight, isn't it?

400MB on boot? More bloat plz. My Arch system uses 130mb on boot. Get on my fucking level.

openSUSE user here.
I have thumbnails in Firefox's file picker.
It's nice.

Installation image is 40 megs but you got fully functional OS that is comfy to use with own minimal but rocksolud web browser, own package management and administration tool etc.

400mb is fairly lightweight compared to Cinnamon or unity, or windows and its 1.1GB, bah

Isn't opensuse a rpm distro? Like Fedora and cent OS?

What hardware are you running it on, I just might give it a try

Pffff, my gentoo System does 70. And yup, that's with X running.

Some laptop with pentium and 500 mb ram

Oh damn, that should run pretty well on my pc then. D2550 and 4gb Ram

But how? Are you shure it isnt a netinstall?

If you like lightweight distros you should take a look at Porteus. Its based on slackware and uses its own packadge manager that solves dependencies over all slackware repos. The installation iso is customizable over a nice gui on theyr webside. And no systemd. 200mb with kde 4 150 mb with xfce

It's not a netistall for sure

True, i looked it up myself. Thats impressive. How is it in daylie use

You can do with it almost everything you can do on ubuntu but with some comfy 90-ies computing feel ^_^

My thoughts are fuck systemd
without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd
forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=570371

>libreboot x200

>> Qubes OS
>> Security by Isolation

works fine tho, its a bit "special" but it werks

>Isn't opensuse a rpm distro? Like Fedora and cent OS?
Yes. What of it ?

>cuz IT SUCKS HAHA FAG

he was jus tasking

I've been meaning to try out Frugalware but have been too lazy to learn Pacman

Wouldn't that make it part of redhat?

No, that just means it uses the same package manager.

Well gee, maybe he was going to follow up with questions about what makes rpm based distros different.

Not really, SUSE is its own thing. See: though this is only really half of the truth.
openSUSE mainly uses YaST as its package manager, though this uses rpm packages/archives as well, and rpm (the package manager) is still there and available to use if you so desire.

Looks comfy. Might give it a try on vmware.

I tried scientific for a while. It was shit.

Thanks for clearing that up, I always assumed using the same package manager made it part of the same distro like mint and Ubuntu.

Mint and Ubuntu can be considered the same distribution for a whole lot of other reasons, though I'd advice against Mint on the grounds of its maintainer being one incompetent guy.

Debian and Ubuntu would be a better example of two distributions using the same package manager, but it's still far from the same situation as SUSE/Red Hat/centOS, since Ubuntu is actually based on (and, aside from the package manager, has a lot in common with) Debian while the same can't be said for the other three.

I use Slackware on my laptop

I find it very nice, repos pretty much have nothing besides the most basic stuff. And you have to resolve all missing dependencies by hand
There's community maintained slackbuilds which gives you scripts to easily compile stuff from source tarball into an installable package

There's also slapt-get you can use instead of slackpkg for easier upgrading, usually you have to run slackpkg upgrade per package or pull every updated package off FTP and run upgradepkg on each

I like it a lot, though. I can tell why people who use gentoo like it so much, it's nice to be in control of everything. I was distro hopping for the last year trying to find something I feel good with and I finally found it, so I'm satisfied. Might install it on my other computers.

How do you get to 70? My gentoo is 120mb... With X and dwm

I don't even break 50MB in OpenBSD after starting X

Why does it even matter?

How'd that go? I just installed it on a junker I'm planning to use as a htpc.

It's running really well and I think I found my new favorite DE.

Thanks mate, looks like a solid distro.

poorfags

you cant explain that

probably because it's for scientists, not fuccboi mathematologists

Scientific spin never made much sense to me. Researchers in full control of their machines are just going to install Ubuntu and whatever packages they need.

Or Debian, or Fedora

>tfw still no prebuilt Ubuntu containers
This is the only thing holding me back. Hopefully someday they’ll add pass through too.

GalliumOS

The chink distro Deepin is really, really good.

Alpine Linux

>pros

musl-libc > glibc
OpenRC > systemd
busybox > coreutils (kinda)
apk > pacman (it's faster)

>cons

It's basically Arch, but without a community and with fewer packages.
Manually building webkit and all of it's dependencies in order to get surf installed was a bitch.
You need a bit more experience to figure things out because of scarce documentation.

They are probably trying tobsave all of their ram to shitposting on Sup Forums, or they are running a shitty Pentium 3 with 256mb ram.

Void Linux
I was a die hard fan of pacman, until i've tried xbps.
I like the similar synthaxes it uses
>xbps-install - Suv #update packages

Chinks are the untapped super power of the Linux community

>chink distro
Y tho

I use Kali Linux because Mr robot uses it but also because I have to sell child porn online

>have to
>sell porn

OpenSUSE here as well. After distro hopping for a while, I think I've settled on SUSE.

Also a solus user. This distro has great potential.

Not obvious.

these two are actually decent distros

also NixOS

RPM is the backend, while OpenSUSE uses YaST as the frontend, similarly to how Debian uses APT as a frontend for DPKG, or Fedora uses DNF/YUM as a frontend for RPM

>musl-libc
GNU string functions are objectively better. I mean, do you even ((long - 0x01010101) & ~long & 0x80808080)?

>using memes

Huh?
Spoonfeed me your bit-shifting ways, oh wizardly one.

>expected expression before long
you better hurry up

mfw

github.com/lattera/glibc/blob/master/string/strlen.c

Glibc strlen reads the string word by word and uses:
if (((longword - lomagic) & ~longword & himagic) != 0)

check to see whether or not the word contains a zero (\0), before searching for it. This speeds up the process of finding the end of the string a lot.

>musl strlen 0.081
>glibc strlen 0.048
from etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html

Many other mem/str functions are naive too, as glibc can really use all the optimizations your cpu has, for example SSE3 instructions.

btw I'm not saying that musl is bad, I'm just saying that it's not ready yet. at least performance wise, glibc is much more mature

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>a non gpl ridden os

I'm in heaven.

Thanks for the explanation, dude.
And yeah, I know it's slower in some aspects but that's a small price to pay for cutting down on all that bloat and for actually readable code.

tcc vs gcc is another example of a bloat-free alternative being slower due to lack of optimization.

While Alpine is mostly GNU-free, busybox, the kernel, and lots of other software is under the GPL.
Also, you can't really avoid installing some things like gcc if you need to build software.

>Not going to post my own desktop for obvious reasons.
Such as?

OP is a pedo

Where did I say it did? It's just neat how efficient the OS is compared to others. Of course it doesn't matter when you've got 5GB RAM

>being licensed under the GPL makes it GNU software
You cannot possibly be this retarded

Reading comprehension?
The guy I replied to said 'a non gpl ridden os', to which I responded by clarifying that although Alpine avoids GNU software, some of it's alternatives are also under the GPL.
Therefore, while it certainly is a non-GNU-ridden OS, it's not a non-GPL-ridden OS.

Faggot.

I didn't read the post you were replying to, you're less retarded than I thought you were.

Bitch.

Oh yeah I use Debian, it's pretty unheard of and surprisingly good. I think they ripped off Ubuntu pretty bad

Clear Linux >> memes

Debian Testing with GNOME 3 uses 850mb after starting up

I'm glad we resolved this conflict.

Cunt.

Go team Devuan.

Just installed Qubes+Whonix on a cheap netbook I had, runs alright though.

Probably helps that at some point I must've put the RAM from my normal laptop that broke, so I got 6 gig RAM, but only an E1 1GHz processor.

I had a look, but it doesn't come with dnscrypt by default, although it does come with dnsmasq, so I guess I'll look at that, maybe some other hardeningy type stuff.

One more for smeagol.

>Not going to post my own desktop for obvious reasons.
????
What reasons?

I've been using solus for a month or two, been pretty happy with it, doesn't get in the way and have everything I need.
Now it's rolling release!

Where the hell did that pic come from?

It's all the same shit man.

I think budgie looks like a REALLY nice DE, but I don't know if it implements very well on something like arch, and it seems like it isn't far enough to have squashed a lot of bugs.