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We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

slackware, gentoo, crux maybe

there are stuff like tinycore too

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I think arch is based on crux?
Or smth Idk

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it was inpired and afaik at first based on it, but arch has threaded its own path ever since