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linux for people who read the manual and enjoyed it.
means the oldest surviving linux distribution, built on a philosophy of minimal automation and maximum user control.
from created in 1993 by patrick volkerding as a cleanup of the messy softlanding linux system, named partly as a joke referencing the church of the subgenius and its gospel of slack.
release cadenceyears apart, whenever volkerding decides its ready
dependency resolverfamously none, you handle it manually
still maintainedsolo by volkerding, over three decades later
package formatsimple tarballs, no fancy metadata