nixCraft ๐งPoll: If you were designing a new #Linux distribution, which existing distro would you use as your foundation?
Arch Linux
CentOS Stream/Fedora
Debian Linux
Other/Comment below
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Taran Rampersad@nixCraft Linux Mint.
Vendetta@knowprose @nixCraft linux mint is based on debian
@knowprose @nixCraft ok fair enough
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@nixCraft UwUntu OS because - lol, lmao
Jason
Lyndon Lapierre
BobsShadow@nixCraft gentoo with some steals from chimera linux.
@nixCraft Easily debian, arch sucks as a base distro (it's meant to be diy for end users, not as a distro base, its buggy as a distro base), and fedora/centos stream is corporate-ran.
Debian is a community-based distro. Not controlled by 1 corporation. Less risk of it being compromised and turned closed-source. Easier to maintain a distro fork due to slow release cycle. Great for new users. Not very buggy.
Debian is a community-based distro. Not controlled by 1 corporation. Less risk of it being compromised and turned closed-source. Easier to maintain a distro fork due to slow release cycle. Great for new users. Not very buggy.
Eric Carroll@nixCraft The correct answer is None: We need a new Linux Distro like we need a hole in our heads.
nobody@nixCraft slackware
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Kevin Neely 
@nixCraft but if I were really doing this, I'd do a lot of research first, rather than knee-jerk clicking a radio button ๐
shironeko@nixCraft it's gonna be from scratch, else I'd just use the distro
BiggestBulb ๐ก๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐งโ๐ป@nixCraft Debian. Stability, imo, makes or breaks a distro. There are plenty of exceptions of course, but if you're trying to make a new distro that is competing with the Ubuntus, Mints and Windows' of the era, then stability is an absolute must.
sqrt(-1)@nixCraft anything free of systemd
(we do use buildroot as base to our own Linux images at work for example)
Bruce Elrick
Mangdries
Dr Know@nixCraft guix, because lisp
Seirdy@nixCraft UBlue makes Fedora a really good starting point. SecureBlue is a good example.
deedend 
Jeff Dutky@nixCraft Slackware FOREVER!!!
init6@nixCraft once you really get into arch it's hard to go back. I used Debian and Ubuntu for decades before that
aconux@nixCraft QubesOS
Kusalananda@nixCraft Alpine, because it's small and made to be built upon.
Miroslav Kravec@nixCraft NixOS & QubesOS
JGirCo 
@nixCraft NixOS, I think the immutability and central control aspects could be cool for a family distro.
radon@nixCraft gentoo
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I'd most likely start with Ublue images that you can build off of. Then making changes to the distro would just be changing the build script a little.
I think this would not only make building the distro itself easier, but undoing changes and trying someone else's work would also be easier.
Paul Buetow@nixCraft maybe Void Linux
Wieke
Fazal Majid@nixCraft Alpine Linux.
Salix ๐จ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ช๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐น๐ผ@nixCraft LFS - Linux from scratch.
noim@nixCraft alpine
glelkaitis@nixCraft Void Linux
Dougie Lawson@nixCraft I quite like Mint as an easy to use distro based on Ubuntu.
marcthenarc
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐Technomancer๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐@nixCraft , I wouldn't use a derivative. It would have to be LFS.
Katzenmann / Catperson@nixCraft I don't know. Depends on the use case of the distro. If I would make a newbie-friendly distro definitely debian but otherwise I don't see a point of creating another fork of any distro. If I had a revolutionary idea it would probably it's own thing. (Like Void Linux which is very good)
Stew@nixCraft This sounds like a thankless, miserable task and Debian seems the least likely to make it worse.
custos@nixCraft Gentoo
morohoshi@nixCraft Linux from Scratch, all of this based distros are just original distros with new set of wallpapers ๐
Fae Empress@nixCraft I already made my own distro using Ubuntu. It was pretty easy thanks to some existing tools, but not as easy as making your own BSD OS.
jan Anja();@nixCraft Gentoo took inspiration from NetBSD, which led to some great decisions