Tag: distro
DoomLinux: the Distro That Loads Only Enough Software to Play DOOM
Some examples are Kali for security testing, DragonOS for software-defined radio, or Hannah Montana Linux for certain music fans.
Anyone can roll their own Linux distribution with the right tools, including [Shadly], who recently created one which only loads enough software to launch the 1993 classic DOOM…. It loads the Linux kernel and the standard utilities via BusyBox, then runs fbDOOM, which is a port of the game specifically designed to run on the Linux framebuffer with minimal dependencies.
Their report includes video of the distro booting up and playing Doom.
“The entire distribution is placed into a bootable ISO file that can be placed on any bootable drive.”
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‘Manufacturers will put a screen on anything’ I say staring at a distro plate with a 7-inch monitor built in
New Distro ‘blendOS’ Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu
blendOS is here to offer you “a seamless blend of all Linux distributions,” as its creator wants to call it. blendOS is based on Arch Linux and GNOME on Wayland, but it lets you use apps from other popular distributions, such as Fedora Linux or Ubuntu.
This is possible because you can use the native package managers from Arch Linux (pacman — included by default), Fedora Linux (dnf), and Ubuntu (apt), which are included as containers using Distrobox/Podman. However, the DNF and APT package managers aren’t included in the live ISO image, nor blendOS’s own blend package manager…. It also follows a rolling release model, since it’s derived from Arch Linux.
Even if it comes with the GNOME desktop by default on the live ISO image, blendOS will let you deploy a new installation with another popular desktop environment, such as KDE Plasma, MATE, or Xfce, or even window managers like Sway or i3. Apart from the fact that you can install any app from any of the supported Linux distributions, blendOS also comes with out-of-the-box support for sandboxed Flatpak apps, which you can easily install directly from the Flathub Store app, which is a Web App that puts the Flathub website on your desktop.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.