Sunshine@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoWhat are the more obscure independent linux distros?message-squaremessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareWhat are the more obscure independent linux distros?Sunshine@piefed.zip to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-text
We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoBuildroot, Alpine and OpenWRT Just a word of warning: be careful of some of the more obscure distros as they tend to get behind on security updates
minus-squareTehPers@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAlpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven’t considered running it as a desktop OS.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI wouldn’t personally use it on the desktop. If it ran systemd I’d consider it for servers.
minus-squarehereiamagain@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoOpenwrt is fairly secure, no? Otherwise people wouldn’t use it in their network stack?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoGenerally it is pretty solid. By obscure I mean distros like Tinycore that don’t have security as a focus
Buildroot, Alpine and OpenWRT
Just a word of warning: be careful of some of the more obscure distros as they tend to get behind on security updates
Alpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven’t considered running it as a desktop OS.
I wouldn’t personally use it on the desktop. If it ran systemd I’d consider it for servers.
Openwrt is fairly secure, no? Otherwise people wouldn’t use it in their network stack?
Generally it is pretty solid. By obscure I mean distros like Tinycore that don’t have security as a focus