Seas of bytes have been written around the discussion between supporters of unifying efforts and supporters of diversity. The truth is that for each successful distribution, there must be 10 that are discontinued because they do not contribute anything new ……… ..But this article is not about distros like that, this article is about thematic distributions.
But not thematic in the field of use (distros oriented to education, security, rescue, audiovisual editing, multimedia center, etc.) …………. But around a theme… ..
1) The Hanna Montana Distros and Justin beiber
They are not a big deal. Hanna's is a Kubuntu with Hanna wallpapers, icons and music. Justin's is equivalent but based on Puppy. Then they say that Disney is an enemy of open source.
2) mangaka y otakux, loas distros for Otakus. Not to mention more……..
3) Mussolinux and Red Star …… ..Discontinued for the sake of the social democracy of the center.
4) Religious Distros
Who said that Linux was a thing of atheists and agnostics? If Saint Ignucius can be taken seriously, it also makes sense that there are religious distros. Today the famous Christian-oriented Ubuntu editions (ubuntuce) and Muslims (Sabily, formerly known as Ubuntu Muslim Edition) are still active and stand out for their applications oriented to their religions. In the case of UbuntuCE it contains Xiphos (to study the Bible), OpenLP and Quelea (for Christian karaoke in the church) in addition to having a parental filter (something essential …….). In the case of Sabily they have zekr (a study of the Koran, with translations included), Minbar (it tells you what time to pray kneeling on the carpet), Hijra (the Muslim calendar) ...... and of course, a parental filter.
There is also the satanic version, but it is the same as Justin Bieber's.
5) Distros in my language
I have no idea which was the first distro to incorporate support for the Spanish language, but there was a time when there were distros specialized in the language (some are still active). The main reason many are discontinued is because major distributions already have good support for those languages. They were for example: Bee Linux (in Berber, language spoken in Algeria), Nepalinux (in Nepali), Dzongkha Linux (in Dzongkha, the language of Bhutan), arabix (from the United Arab Emirates), ojuba (in Arabic, made in Jordan), B2D Linux and linux deepin (in Chinese, the first made in Taiwan, the other in the people's republic), turbolinux y I came Linux (in Japanese), Hacao (in Vietnamese), Boss e IndLinux (in Hindi), swecha (in Telugu), ehad y kinneret (in Israeli), Karamad (in Persian), pingo linux (in Slovenian), runtu (in Russian), NordisKnoppix (for the Scandinavian and Baltic languages, made in Norway), Baltix (for the Baltic languages, made in Lithuania), Alinex (in Portuguese) and LinEspa and Gulic-BSD (100% SPANISH !!!! !)
In a separate case, the Spanish distros of other languages can be mentioned: Augustux (Aragonese), Catix (Catalan), Lliurex (Valencian, a dialect of Catalan), Asturix (Asturian) and Galinux and Trisquel (Galician)
And this was my sample of distributions. Let the last one turn off the light.
I ask for Justino Brevas' ... that distro has to be tasted 😛
Based on Puppy… .I don't know if it was on purpose, or a terrible coincidence !! xD
I respect diversity, but up to a point. Keep the distros such as Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Archlinux, Mandriva or Moondrake, RedHat, SuSE and some others such as multimedia, editing and those specialized in LiveCD rescue. But distros like Ubuntu Christian Edition or Satanic Ubuntu do not make sense, in part, this beyond being diversity, is fragmentation, and thus we will never reach the desktop of the common user. Greetings, Pablo.
But the fragmentation is not given by the distro number, but by the number of distro bases, desktops, by systemd / Upstart, by the fact that you cannot use the same icon packs in kde as in gnome etc. . Most of these exotic distros must be based on ubuntu or puppy and do not contribute anything even to the fragmentation.
Fragmentation of what?
My mother of my life ... What free time ...
The one that I have been most perplexed with was Mussolinux O_O !!! (much more than with Red Star, which I already knew)
this is one of the problems and at the same time properties of the modifications in linux. being able to create a distro freely. what a paradox.
The truth is, I don't know what the people who made Linux Bieber (._.) would have smoked, okay, the versions in your language after all are useful for the localizations and other software, but the others… ..
maybe… .. maybe I say, if the efforts were better focused on improving some little things that, I don't know… .. are more important, I think we would all be happier, happier than with hannah montana linux…. but what do i know? I'm just an anomaly in limited life space-time 😀
don't bother, I just took the entrance with more joy than usual 😛
Hahahahahaha I am that I break. But do not forget that there are also parasitic distros that are nothing more and nothing less than an independent distro (understand Arch Linux, Debian, OpenSuse, etc.), to which they add a desktop environment and a couple of wallpapers and voila! ! a new distro ... example: Cinnarch, among many others ... the funny thing is that there are people who risk saying that these distros are better than the base from which they are descended .... XD
In Spanish, at the time of Red Hat 6, it was Hispafuentes, based on Red Hat, but in Spanish, because the translation of Red Hat in that distro was fatal. With Red Hat 7, things changed quite a bit. some year before leaving Linex.
From Hispafuentes I tried 7 and 8, I think. They came with PC World or PC Actual.
I still must have them at home.
It was with the distro that I learned the most at that time, because Red Hat 5 and 6 had a lot of English and I had very little idea at that time, not that today I have improved it much
Greetings,
Agree that most of the list should not exist, with a few exceptions:
The distros for mangaka and that have as far as I know, special applications for fandub, fansub and that is
Trisquel is completely free software, that's the niche it fills.
Also, you always wrote so beautifully and today you went overboard with the ellipsis. Only three are used.
Yes, I found out after pressing the "Post comment" button, unfortunately the comments cannot be edited.
Anyway thanks for the observation.
I wish it could, I also just commented and wrote "me" instead of "he".
There is also an out of the ordinary version o_O based on ubuntu (things of life xD) me here: Ubuntu Satanic Edition
http://ubuntusatanic.org/screenshots.php
The name is curious but when I see the screenshots I think it is not worth even downloading it
Well, if someone wants to make a new distro either based on an existing one (such as Ubuntu based on Debian), or from scratch, I don't see problems or anything negative, after all that is what Free Software is about ... What does bother me A bit is that a government creates, spends resources, in a distro based on another, such as Huayra in Argentina based on nothing less than Debian testing, when the best that could be done would be to create packages or repositories with specialized programs or of interest to the government, that they work in the most important distros ...
Hehehe .. there is a distro for each person. As long as they are not incompatible with each other.
I wanted to ask you a question, excuse me for getting off the subject ..: - /
Does anyone know where I can find an icon theme and appearance like the one in the last image? I think it's KDE 3.5 (I'm looking for a retro theme with those pixelated icons that I like so much) compatible with my Xubuntu and its Xfmw windows.
Thank you very much and excuse me again!
How about Community.
Although I am very respectful of diversity and creativity, the truth is there are many distros that I don't really know what they do as a distro itself. Those exposed here in this post, as well as the hundreds of "buntus" (which are the majority, for example) that only add to the options database and that in practice do not contribute absolutely anything, other than a few different desktop themes and icons.
From my personal point of view, this instead of contributing to cohesion, rather, it bets on dispersion. As I explained at the beginning, I respect diversity and creativity very much, but I consider that these teams instead of wasting time making distros as if they were underwear changes, contributed to the debugging or improvement of the mother distro on which they are based and so on. have better quality control.
well ... we will have to try some lol
Juas! Saying that Valencian is a dialect of Catalan ... don't let Valencians or Catalans read you ... XDDDD
As a Uruguayan, I don't see Valencian as a language other than Catalan. It is like saying that the Uruguayan Castilian is a language apart from the Castilian of Spain.
The only good thing that I see is that maybe young people want to install one of those distro only for their favorite artist
in huge WTF !!!!!!! but as they say, "This is freedom ..."
shaft
From what I know, red star is still functional, I know one of the developers and he is not one of those who release a project
In Spain according to distrowatch there are several I have to look at calmly:
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?origin=Spain
Pussycat with 54Mb has a pint of milk.
http://youtu.be/VApVotzYDEo
Hehehe wtf