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What does un-distro mean?

• magicalhippo 3y ago
  Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's using a distro. You go around the circle to distroless, and on the other end of the circle, close to using a distro, but not using a distro, is un-distro. Paraphrased in jest from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4 Seems they use it to highlight it's not just distroless but also kernel-less[1]. [1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-wolfi-the-first-linux-un-distro https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-wolfi-the-f... (last section)
  • dlor 3y ago
    It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out that a it's a Linux distro without the Linux kernel, so it's really an "unLinux distro", or an (un)distro for short.
  • eptcyka 3y ago
    The last section in the link helped, but I have to say, the circle analogy made very little sense to me. Thank you for clarifying nonetheless.
    • magicalhippo 3y ago
      > the circle analogy made very little sense to me Yeah, was just a silly connection I made to the sample used in the track[1]. From a documentary on LSD[2]. [1]: https://www.psydb.net/release/hallucinogen-the-lone-deranger/6445 https://www.psydb.net/release/hallucinogen-the-lone-deranger... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm6-THvnf44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm6-THvnf44