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Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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That logo makes it a non-starter in any organization I've seen in the last decade.

How many of those organisations feature smiling attractive women in their product advertising? It's funny how many companies are happy to use sex to sell products but god forbid someone see a silhouette of a bikini.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

#22

What is the standard pick these days for a no-frills, stripped back, but still usable Linux distribution? One that doesn't start with much, but isn't boiling the ocean like Arch or Slack if you want to add more? I used to like Xubuntu, but this was like a decade ago at this point.

I think puppy linux and tinycore are the lightest ones Ive heard of. Haven't tried either yet, I find mainstream distros like debian are still light enough for most old computers.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

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Is it, though? (That's a bit of a meme, sorry.) No, seriously. Why would I choose this over Alpine? Or, given the failure modes of Alpine as a container image, why would I even choose Alpine? Everything in this space is absolute shite.

What’s the problem with alpine?

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Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

#24

That logo makes it a non-starter in any organization I've seen in the last decade.

Rorschach test? There's another comment here saying it's sexist, but after staring at it for a few minutes all I can see is some sort of odd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns in the middle; which might be because the name made me think of the band.

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

#25

That logo makes it a non-starter in any organization I've seen in the last decade.

That and the package manager is a bash script.

... which relies on many battle-tested Unix utilities.

Why is that such a bad thing? I'm not generally a big fan of shell scripts but this one looks particularly readable and documented: https://github.com/kisslinux/kiss/blob/master/kiss

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

#27

Looks cool but WTF is that logo? I'm an artist and I can't figure out what it's supposed to be even after staring at it for 5 minutes ¯\(°_o)/¯

i think it's a woman leaning over - we're seeing some cleavage there. but... it may just be a rorschach logo...

Re: Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”

#28

That logo makes it a non-starter in any organization I've seen in the last decade.

Rorschach test? There's another comment here saying it's sexist, but after staring at it for a few minutes all I can see is some sort of odd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns in the middle; which might be because the name made me think of the band.

It took me a while too, but now I can't unsee it. Not sure if this what the others see, but to me it looks like a woman leaning over to the left. The vertical lines on the right are her left arm, the line on the left is her right arm. And she seems to be wearing a hat. We one would choose a logo like that is beyond me.
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