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What are the more obscure independent linux distros? (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

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[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Aren't both Alpine and NixOS really big in certain enterprise areas? And NixOS and Alpine are both relatively well covered in news articles and posts.

When I think niche Linux distro, something more like GoboLinux comes to mind:

GoboLinux at a Glance - GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that's installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I tried more "niche from a popular perspective". You're right, especially alpine is in the background of a lot of docker containers but rarely an end user who just want their desktop environment knows them.

For nixos I've not yet seen anyone in the enterprise world pushing for it - there it's still all about containerization and orchestration in cloud environments, using that as reproducibility layer. That might change though with data sovereignty discussions going on.