What do you think about the Non-Distros?
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Hello.
This is a topic that have been in my mind for a while.
About those "Distros" we can describe by "Its basically Ubuntu" "Its basically Debian" with no other change than the logos and cover art.
I think there is a huge oversaturation of distros, and only a few can stand themselves as Distributions.
Some of them are adapted to the necessities of certain enterprise or country, add some no-libre software, no-libre repositories and then its released as a "Linux Distribution".
I want to hear your opinions about this. Of course, everyone can modify and share their own version of the software, but most of this "Non-Distros" bring nothing new to the community, and may confuse new not experimented users.
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Hehe, you are right, many distros are basically a 'customized Debian' + some blobbery + some (mostly crappy) house build apps, meh, meh, meh :D
I usually ignore them when I can. Now anyone can make their own "distro". The worst one I've seen is a "distro" made by white supremacists.
Wait a second, is that for real????
Well, nothing will be worst than Hannah Montana Linux, or "Otaku" Linux.
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I guess you are referring to 'Apartheid Linux'.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-strange-disturbing-linux-distros-installing/
Yeah, just when I thought nothing could beat the shameful disgrace of Hannah Montanah Lignux.. :/
I started using GNU/Linux with a "Basically Ubuntu" distro (and personally I guess I still have a bit of a soft spot for it). It uses Ubuntu's repos.
TBH I actually think of Mint and Trisquel as "Basically Ubuntu" as well (even though both do have their own repos which don't copy Ubuntu's quite so verbatim).
I don't really mind since I think I've always taken "based on Ubuntu" to basically mean Ubuntu + and minus a few packages anyway, so it was always clear enough to me they weren't really like RHEL/CentOS, Mandriva, Slackware, etc are/were.
Also sometimes the results are just quite respectable - Crunchbang was Debian plus new in-house packages (and apps?) but I can see why people liked it (and, well, it was an easy way to get up-to-date versions of Xcompmgr forks, so there was that).
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