A really neat graphic I randomly stumbled across on Wikipedia.
No idea if this is accurate but it’s fascinating to see all these distros laid out this way.
Seems to live here now: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/tree/main
Where do you live in this family tree?
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When I was first hearing about linux, it was via Knoppix. Seems like a past life now, so long ago.
The real hero here is the 75 line shell script, generating the very cool SVG image from a CSV file.
I installed Slackware in 1994 or so. Floppy. Disks.
Fast forward almost 30 years and I’m still trying new (to me) distros. Proxmox VE this time.
Proxmox isn’t a “distro” as most would colloquially think of one. It’s a hypervisor.
Am I taking crazy pills?
Do you mean you are using it to use your setup in a VM or container?
Proxmox VE is a packaging of Linux as an operating system. It is a distribution. Straight from the wikipedia page:
It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel[7] and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers.[8][9]
Cool way to respond to a comment btw:
Am I taking crazy pills?
The VMs I’m running in Proxmox are also Linux, but that’s less interesting to me.
I gotcha. I meant no offense. I was halfway hoping you’d tell me there was a spin of proxmox that was meant for desktop use that containerized everything or something.
It’s Debian-based so can install all the same desktop and window environments available there.
If you enjoyed that you should check out https://www.levenez.com/unix/
I did enjoy that, but look what you’ve done to my productivity.
Started on Ubuntu in 09. - got the CD in the mail On kubuntu now
Ive bounced around all over arch, Manjaro, fedora, pop_os, mint but I always come back to kubuntu.
It just works for me.
Pssht they don’t even have AmogOS
A parody OS inspired by Among Us ඞ
Oh, I see. Yes, serious omission
I can’t believe they’d miss such a cornerstone of Linux history
I started with Slackware around 1997 because I needed a free C compiler plus all I had were junk, hand-me-down computers. Stopped programming & using linux around 2000 and had switched back to Windows on a newly built, decent computer. From about 2000 until about 2016 I rarely used linux besides a couple routers. Raspberry pi 3 came out with built-in wifi & my dislike of Windows 10 got me back into linux for more use cases. Valve’s work on proton finally made it so I could switch to linux for most gaming & my Windows usage dropped to almost nothing. Currently using Manjaro on primary desktop and Fedora 38 on tablet with mix of distros in LXC & VMs on mini-PC w/ Proxmox VE & Synology NAS. SteamVR on linux been getting decent amount of work on it lately so once it gets stable I’ll have one less reason to need Windows.
