Mindovermaster Global Moderator Posted January 24, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted January 24, 2023 I saw this video just a day ago, and I know all these, and loved them for what they were. Trip down memory lane. Crunchbang#! Damn Small Linux (DSL) Hannah Montana Ubuntu Satanic Edition CinnArch/Antergos There any dead distros that you remember? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 I do believe I've heard of all of them but DSL was only distro I ever attempted to play with. Was pretty much before my time of delving to far into Linux. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zikalify Editor Posted January 24, 2023 Editor Share Posted January 24, 2023 Antergos was replaced by EndeavourOS and CrunchBang by BunsenLabs. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good Bot, Bad Bot Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 So I guess when you said "popular" you were being sarcastic. LOL On 24/01/2023 at 13:40, zikalify said: Antergos was replaced by EndeavourOS and CrunchBang by BunsenLabs. Tiny Core Linux is from the original author of Damn Small Linux. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted January 24, 2023 Global Moderator Share Posted January 24, 2023 Surely....Mandrake? shockz, Nick H. and cork1958 3 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 None of those mentioned in the video outside of maybe DSL were actually really popular distros. spikey_richie 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted January 24, 2023 Subscriber² Share Posted January 24, 2023 What about the Neowin distro!? Nick H. 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey_richie Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 According to Distrowatch, the popularity for this goes as: Crunchbang#! - Not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Crunchbang Damn Small Linux (DSL) - not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall Hannah Montana - Doesn't exist in the distrowatch database Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Can't find it. CinnArch/Antergos - Not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=antergos Not exactly "very popular", according to a reputable source. Most popular are on the right-hand side on the distrowatch homepage. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raphaël G. MVC Posted January 24, 2023 MVC Share Posted January 24, 2023 Thanks for posting this. I love trips down memory lane. However I wish people creating such videos would do more research. There are always lots of "I think" and "I might be wrong about this" in their videos. spikey_richie 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted January 24, 2023 MVC Share Posted January 24, 2023 The words "Very Popular" are doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Sikh 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted January 24, 2023 Supervisor Share Posted January 24, 2023 On 24/01/2023 at 15:28, spikey_richie said: According to Distrowatch, the popularity for this goes as: Crunchbang#! - Not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Crunchbang Damn Small Linux (DSL) - not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall Hannah Montana - Doesn't exist in the distrowatch database Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Can't find it. CinnArch/Antergos - Not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=antergos Not exactly "very popular", according to a reputable source. Most popular are on the right-hand side on the distrowatch homepage. not popular in this day and age but in the early 2000's they definitely were (minus the satanic and Hannah versions) Sikh 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Global Moderator Posted January 24, 2023 Author Global Moderator Share Posted January 24, 2023 On 24/01/2023 at 15:28, spikey_richie said: According to Distrowatch, the popularity for this goes as: Crunchbang#! - Not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Crunchbang Damn Small Linux (DSL) - not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall Hannah Montana - Doesn't exist in the distrowatch database Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Can't find it. CinnArch/Antergos - Not ranked. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=antergos Not exactly "very popular", according to a reputable source. Most popular are on the right-hand side on the distrowatch homepage. Those are not probably in there because "I think" DistoWatch was made after it was dead.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey_richie Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 On 24/01/2023 at 23:18, Mindovermaster said: Those are not probably in there because "I think" DistoWatch was made after it was dead.. Distrowatch launched in 2001, Hannah Montana (picked one randomly from the list) was launched in 2009. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioraito Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Didn't know these exist Ubuntu Satanic Edition Ubuntu Christian Edition I don't know what to think the reason these exist Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted January 25, 2023 MVC Share Posted January 25, 2023 I remember Damn Small Linux (DSL) it was ported to the original Xbox as xDSL and ran pretty well with the Xbox's limited 64mb of ram. You can still download that and a few other Xbox distros from SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/files/ Unless we are rewriting history, I'm pretty sure Hannah Montana Linux was a meme os of the time. I remember Neowin's Shift Linux distro also. +Matthew S. and Brandon H 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted January 25, 2023 Supervisor Share Posted January 25, 2023 On 24/01/2023 at 19:34, Jim K said: Surely....Mandrake? Man, Mandrake...waaay back when I was little this was going to be my first foray into the world of Linux. Unfortunately I was still too young and lacking the knowledge to figure out how to install it. It's funny now that I'm older and I'm thinking, "but that would have been a piece of cake to do," but at the same time I'm glad I had the common sense not to bother. We only had one computer in the house, and if I had borked that up there would have been no one around to fix it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598792998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Global Moderator Posted January 25, 2023 Author Global Moderator Share Posted January 25, 2023 On 25/01/2023 at 02:14, spikey_richie said: Distrowatch launched in 2001, Hannah Montana (picked one randomly from the list) was launched in 2009. Oh, really? OK.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1425194-five-very-popular-distros-now-dead/#findComment-598793063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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