“Some are very similar to others, and some are wildly different
from the rest. The one thing to remember is that while these
distributions may be amazingly well thought out, and amazingly well
put together their obscurity will present two problems. First,
smaller communities will not be as capable of helping you with
every problem you face. Second, with fewer users you also have
fewer contributors. This means that releases may be infrequent and
irregular, and package repositories will be sparse. If these
problems are not crucial deal breakers for you, read on.“GoboLinux
Platform: i686
Format: CD ISO
Site: www.gobolinux.org
I have already mentioned GoboLinux in this Blog. GoboLinux is a
personal favorite of mine, because I use some obscure packages
which are installed from source. GoboLinux also allows me to have
multiple versions of the same package installed at one time, and
also allows those packages to be used in tandem.”
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