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      Man, this infographic is like, EXACTLY why people are scared of Linux, lol.

      It has a lot of good info but it’s just so overloaded. Can’t decide what story it wants to tell so it tells like 7 of them.

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    Let’s see what I got.

    Debian
    Ubuntu
    Mint
    Fedora
    Red hat
    Suse
    Slackware
    Gentoo
    Arch
    Pop
    Kali
    Tails
    Whonix
    Lubuntu
    Kubuntu
    Manjaro
    Endeavor
    Hannah Montana Linux
    ~~TempleOS~~ (That better? Lmao)
    AntiX
    MX
    Puppy
    Slax
    Zorin
    Silverblue
    Bazzite
    SteamOS
    CentOS
    Redstar
    

    I know I’m missing some but that should be 10.

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    Off the top of my head:

    OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Arch, Debian, Mandrake, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Backtrack Linux, Slackware, CentOS

    Some of these have changed names or stopped being supported, unfortunately.

      • In fact, systemd is arguable a more important component covering more aspects of system function in a lot of distributions: home mounting, boot process, logging, init, cron… I’m going to start calling it systemd/Linux, just to mess with Stallman.

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          Uh no, it’s not. GNU has been integral to the GNU/Linux project for years. Without GCC, coreutils, glibc, there would be no linux distributions. Systemd has not played the same role.

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              systemd is an init system and just has not played the same role in the development of GNU/Linux distributions like GNU has. before systemd there was sysvinit, and there are number of alternate init systems. It’s not about system functionality that we name operating systems.

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      Here’s a picture of the linux distro family tree:

      There’s Debian, the distro.

      There’s Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

      there’s gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

      There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

      there’s arch for people who want to feel they’re better than others tinkerers,

      there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

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        Slackware is the oldest distribution which is still active. I remember Yggdrasil came before it, and I’m looking it up, I see that Slackware was based on the earlier SLS.