OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23504/12_Interesting_Unusual_Linux_Distros Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:51 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Specialists http://www.osnews.com/thread?432046 http://www.osnews.com/thread?432046 I really like these specialist distributions and have already used nearly all of them. They are not really unknown, they just are not general purpose distributions like most others.

Sometimes you can't use your general purpose system to accomplish a task and I think most people who are looking for a good way to accomplish a task already know most of the listed distributions. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reez) Comments RE: Specialists http://www.osnews.com/thread?432091 http://www.osnews.com/thread?432091 Being specialists, they focus on the purpose and remain small.

One apparently missing from this list of specialists is SystemRescueCD which has proven usefull to me in the past for pre-emptive system preservation.

Another one which I feel is missing from the list is PuppyLinux which I also enjoy from time to time. Its relatively small size is definitvely a factor. However, its unique strength is in the combination of the features of a LiveCD with that of an auto back-up of changes (onto the media with an optical writer or the USB-Key). On the other hand, ROX (RiscOS on X) as file browser/manager is a bit ackward at first.

I like the reference to MenuetOS in the article. Although not a Linux distribution, it fits on a single floppy disk which is quite a feat for the features it offers. Unfortunately, not much in terms of general use applications. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BlueofRainbow) Comments Not so easy anyore http://www.osnews.com/thread?432107 http://www.osnews.com/thread?432107 A few years ago was quite easy to roll out a complete linux distro and a skilled user could get by with any of them.
Today the complexity and the number of components have gone up. So has the manpower needed to run a distro.
Finally Ubuntu has raised the bar for hardware support and packages avalability to a level that is hard to match. Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (soulrebel123) Comments RE: Not so easy anyore http://www.osnews.com/thread?432221 http://www.osnews.com/thread?432221
Finally Ubuntu has raised the bar for hardware support and packages avalability to a level that is hard to match.


I do not wish to troll, but Ubuntu raised the bar... in hardware support? Packages availability?

Does it have more drivers (...) than say, Fedora?
Does it have better hardware detection than say, OpenSUSE?
Does it have more packages than say, Debian?

I believe you'll find it -very- hard to put actual numbers behind these claims.

- Gilboa Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments CSI Linux: CAINE http://www.osnews.com/thread?432224 http://www.osnews.com/thread?432224 Has anyone used CAINE's data recovery applications. Is it equivalent or can it perform similar tasks as Ontrack Datarecovery or EASEUS data recovery? Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John Blink) Comments