Dedoimedo:"The Magnificent Seven unique Linux projects"

[nanoSYS]

Dedoimedo on MX Tools:

To the best of my experience and memory, this is the most advanced implementation of the make-desktop-nice functionality.

http://www.ocsmag.com/2018/03/21/the-ma ... -projects/

[Jerry3904]

Thanks for the link. What a nice thing for him to say!

[skidoo]

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TEENpup, mentioned in that article, has been rebranded & re-released as Legacy OS Linux ~~ an Operating System for old Pentium 3 and 4 PCs
ref: https://sourceforge.net/projects/legacy ... rce=navbar and http://puppylinux.org/wikka/TeenPup

and the "Magic Scripts" described in the article (as seen in TEENpup) are a feature of ROX desktop, called "AppDirs".
(the structure of appimage packages is modeled upon AppDir)

ROX (debian package "rox-filer") is still viable (is mature and relatively bug-free) and is still pre-installed in antiX17.1
and LegacyOS is still regularly maintained (many package updates within just the past week)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/legacy ... 0Packages/

...IOW, the "blast from the past" comment represents an uninformed mischaracterization

[malspa]

What if all these different distros actually worked together?

[...] These seven projects, which I truly believe are among the most unique and creative concepts born in the past decade, highlight the brilliance and despair and the utter, pointless fragmentation that grips the Linux world.

Hear, hear.

[Jerry3904]

It's a little bit trickier than that, though. All distros are all looking for an unique identity that will attract users, which is the key to their survival. And we have put a lot of creativity and effort into MX Tools in part toward that end as well. Not sure how that would play out if we all just "worked together."

[dolphin_oracle]

Appdirs are cool. Somewhere I've got instructions for lashing together a trash can for antix that used a plugin for spaced and an app dir for rox desktop.