My Linux History from 1999 to 2024

This piece is an antidote to some Linux Guys on YouTube ranting their prowess on a Virtual Box Terminal. 

While the developers have been working hard,  I was working hard testing their products and was actuclly using them for productive work while having a busy medical career also teaching undergraduate students. I could not convert any of my students to Linux but I never coered anybody but had a healthy laugh at Window users. They are imprisoned and in Apple terms Jail Breakers.

Even though I started with Cldera Linux and moved ont Knoppix 3.7 to Knoppix 7.1, my workhorse was Mandriva which became Mageia. 

I think I started with Debain 6 but moved to Debian 11 in 2021, one year after Coron Virus pandemic. I was down with Mortal ill effects of the Vaccine (wrote a book on Corana Virus the moment, I revovered from the clinical episode, this Fousi Guy almost killed me) and fortunately 2020 was the rest year for Debian and did not miss much. Ever since, I had been  involved with Debain Gnome.

Having said that, I had a brief encounter with Solaris and they in fact send me a DVD free.        I had a brief encounter with Free BSD (not PC BSD) when the Microsoft Boot record did not let me erase its BIOS record to install Linux. 

If I remeber right, I erased Microsoft proprietary hold (after all I bought it, and it is my proerty not Microsof's) it through Internet using Live Free BSD session to connect to the Internet. Thank YOU Free BSD.

The Laptop has Endless instaled in it now.

This is copied from a French article and French do not use capital letters in the middle of a document. I would correct them one word at a time. I could never had the opportunity to try Mandrake Gold Edition. I was never involved in Ubuntu but I had all its versions from 6.1 (Given free by Mark Shuttleworh with thank YOU).

You should understand why have over 400 CD/DVDs in my possesion.

My Linux History from 1999 t0 2024

        1999

Linux kernel 2.0.36 / 2.2.6 / 2.2.11 / 2.2.12 / 2.2.13

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mandrake Linux 5.3 (CD)

sha256sum Linux 2.0.36 (Release 5 February 1999)

FreeBSD 3.1 (CD)

sha256sum (Release 15 february 1999)

Red Hat 5.2 (CD) 

French edition sha256sum Linux 2.0.36 (Release 3 may 1999)

Slackware 4.0 install CD live CD internet archives sha256sum Linux 2.2.6 (Release 17 may)

BeOS 4.5 (CD) sha256sum (Release June 1999)

Mandrake Linux 6.1 Gold Pack CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.2.13 (Release 17 september 1999)

DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6.1 (my first entry)

(CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.11 (Release 4 november 1999)

Corel Linux OS 1.0 (my first entry)

(CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.12 (Release 15 november 1999)

Debian 2.1 r4 CD2

source CD1 source CD2 sha256sum System requirements:i386 Linux 2.0.36 (Release 15 December 1999)

2000

Linux kernel 2.2.12 / 2.2.14 / 2.2.19

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mandrake Linux 7.0 Gold Pack CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.2.14 (Release 27 January 2000)

BeOS 5.0 demo (CD) sha256sum (Release march 2000)

Red Hat 6.2 (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.14 (Release 3 April 2000)

Corel Linux OS 1.1 (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.2.12 (Release 11 may 2000)

Debian 2.2 r0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum System requirements:i386 Linux 2.2.19 (Release 15 august 2000)

FreeBSD 4.2 (CD) sha256sum (Release 21 november 2000)

2001

Linux kernel 2.2.19 / 2.4.2 / 2.4.3

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Red Hat 7.1 (CD)-(my first entry)

Publisher's Edition CD-ROM

sha256sum Linux 2.4.2 (Release 16 April 2001)

Mandrake Linux 8.0 (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.4.3 (Release 19 April 2001)

Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 Workstation CD (my first entry)

source CD unsupported software CD solutions showcase sha256sum Linux 2.4.2 (Release 30 may 2001)

Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 Server CD source CD Volution CD software maintenance program sha256sum Linux 2.4.2 (Release 30 may 2001)

Slackware 8.0 install CD2 live CD3 source CD4 extra sha256sum Linux 2.2.19 (Release 1 July 2001)

2002

Linux kernel 2.4.18 / 2.4.19

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Solaris 8 Update 7 

(Solaris 8 2/02) CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum (Release february 2002, end of life march 2012 with Oracle Extended Support)

Mandrake Linux 9.0 PowerPack

CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.4.19 (Release 25 September 2002)

Red Hat 8.0 CD2 CD3 (my early entry)

sha256sum Linux 2.4.18 (Release 30 september 2002)

2003

Linux kernel 2.4.19 / 2.4.20 / 2.4.21

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Slackware 9.0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum Linux 2.4.20 (Release 19 march 2003, end of life 1 august 2012)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 CD8 CD9

sha256sum Linux 2.4.21 (Release 22 october 2003, end of life 31 october 2010)

Fedora 1 CD2 CD3 (my early entry)

sha256sum Linux 2.4.19 (Release 5 november 2003, end of life 20 September 2004)

There is a story behind the 3 Fedore CDs. I got 2 of the 3 CDs from a momk in Sara road and he did not give me the third. I quickly realized he was a homosexual monk and did not see him again but found the 3rd CD from other sourec (probably got it from Singapore through, one of my agennts in Colombo, Ceylon)

2004

Linux kernel 2.4.27 / 2.6.3 / 2.6.8 / 2.6.9

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mandrake Linux 10.0 

ExtraPack CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.3 (Release 4 march 2004)

Knoppix 3.7 (CD) (I found this too)

sha256sum Linux 2.4.27 (Release 16 august 2004)

Ubuntu 4.10 Install (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.8 (Release 26 october 2004, end of life 26 april 2006)

Ubuntu 4.10 Live CD (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.8 (Release 26 october 2004, end of life 26 April 2006)

Fedora 3 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.9 (Release 8 November 2004, end of life 16 January 2006)

2005

Linux kernel 2.2.20 / 2.4.6 / 2.4.27 / 2.6.8 / 2.6.9 / 2.6.10 / 2.6.11 / 2.6.12

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

CentOS 4.0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum Linux 2.6.9 (Release 9 march 2005, end of life 29 February 2012)

Debian 3.0 r6 DVD

non-us sha256sum System requirements:i386 Linux 2.2.20 + Linux 2.4.6 (Release 2 June 2005)

Ubuntu 5.04 Install (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 april 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 april 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Kubuntu 5.04 (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 april 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Mandriva 2005 PowerPack (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.11 (Release 13 april 2005)

Debian 3.1 r0 CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 CD8 CD9 CD10 CD11 CD12 CD13 CD14

sha256sum System requirements:i486 - 64MB memory Linux 2.4.27 + Linux 2.6.8 (Release 6 june 2005, end of life 30 march 2008)

Solaris 9 Update 8

(Solaris 9 9/05) (DVD)

sha256sum (Release 27 september 2005, end of life october 2014 with Oracle Extended Support)

Mandriva Free 2006.0 DVD2 DVD3

sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.6.12 (Release 14 november 2005)

Mandriva One 2006.0 (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 32MB memory Linux 2.6.12 (Release 14 november 2005)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

CentOS 4.0 CD2 CD3 CD4 sha256sum Linux 2.6.9 (Release 9 march 2005, end of life 29 February 2012)

Ubuntu 5.04 Install (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 april 2005, end of life 8 October 2006

Kubuntu 5.04 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.10 (Release 8 April 2005, end of life 8 October 2006)

Mandriva 2005 PowerPack (DVD) (I think I managed to find this DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.11 (Release 13 April 2005)

2006

Linux kernel 2.4.33 / 2.6.15 / 2.6.17 / 2.6.18 / 2.6.19

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er June 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS (CD)

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er June 2006, end of life 1er June 2011)

Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er June 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Slackware 11.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.4.33 + Linux 2.6.17 (Release 2 october 2006, end of life 1 august 2012)

Mandriva One KDE 2007

CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 CD7 CD8

sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 256MB memory Linux 2.6.17 (Release 3 October 2006)

Mandriva One Gnome 2007

CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 CD6 sha256sum System requirements:i586 - 256MB memory Linux 2.6.17 (Release 3 October 2006)

Fedora 6 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.18 (Release 24 october 2006, end of life 7 December 2007)

Knoppix 5.1 (CD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.19 (Release 30 december 2006)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

FreeBSD 6.1 (CD)

sha256sum (Release 8 may 2016)

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er june 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS (CD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er june 2006, end of life 1er june 2011)

Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.15 (Release 1er june 2006, end of life 14 July 2009)

Fast forward to Debian 6 in 2011 and Mandriva ended and Mageia started.

Debian started with both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.

2011

Linux kernel 2.6.32 / 2.6.38

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Debian 6.0.0 (my entry into Debian Domain)

DVD 2 DVD 3 DVD 4 DVD 5 DVD 6 DVD 7 DVD 8

sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.32 (Release 6 February 2011)

PC BSD 8.2 (DVD)

sha256sum Based on FreeBSD 8.2 (Release 21 February 2011)

Mageia 1 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 1 June 2011, end of life 1 December 2012)

DoudouLinux 1.0 (CD) ( iave tried this CD for children)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.32 (Release 15 June 2011)

Haiku (BeOS) R1/Alpha 3 (CD) sha256sum (Release 18 june 2011)

CentOS 6.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.32 (Release 10 july 2011, end of life 30 november 2020)

Mandriva 2011 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 27 august 2011, end of life august 2014)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Debian 6.0.0

DVD 2 DVD 3 DVD 4 DVD 5 DVD 6 DVD 7 DVD 8 sha256sum System requirements:i586 Linux 2.6.32 (Release 6 February 2011)

PC BSD 8.2 (DVD)

sha256sum Based on FreeBSD 8.2 (Release 21 february 2011)

Mageia 1 (DVD) (I tried this but was never impressed)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 1 June 2011, end of life 1 December 2012)

CentOS 6.0 DVD2 sha256sum Linux 2.6.32 (Release 10 july 2011, end of life 30 November 2020)

Mandriva 2011 (DVD) (I have tried this)

sha256sum Linux 2.6.38 (Release 27 august 2011, end of life august 2014)

2012

Linux kernel 3.2 / 3.3 / 3.4

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

FreeBSD 9.0 (DVD)

sha256sum (Release 10 January 2012, end of life 31 march 2013)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 April 2012, end of life April 2017)

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 april 2012, end of life april 2017)

Kubuntu 12.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 april 2012, end of life april 2017)

Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 april 2012, end of life april 2017)

   Lubuntu 12.04 LTS (CD) sha256sum System requirements:i686 Linux 3.2 (Release 26 april 2012, end of life april 2017)

Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 3.2 (Release 23 may 2012, end of life april 2017)

Linux Mint 13 MATE LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 3.2 (Release 23 may 2012, end of life april 2017)

Fedora 17 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 3.3 (Release 29 may 2012, end of life 30 july 2013)

Fedora 17 live (CD) sha256sum Linux 3.3 (Release 29 may 2012, end of life 30 July 2013)

Knoppix 7.0.3 (CD) (I have tied this)

sha256sum Linux 3.4 (Release 1 July 2012)

Slackware 14.0 (DVD) (I have this but never tried it)

sha256sum Linux 3.2 (Release 28 September 2012)

Haiku (BeOS) R1/Alpha 4.1 (CD) sha256sum (Release 14 november 2012)

2019

Linux kernel 4.18 / 4.19 / 5.1

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mageia 7.0 (DVD)

sha256sum Linux 5.1 (Release 1 july 2019, end of life 26 may 2021)

Debian 10.0 

DVD 2 DVD 3 sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Gnome (DVD) (I may have tried this but cannot remeber)

 sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Xfce (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXDE (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 July 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXQt (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 july 2019)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Mageia 7.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.1 (Release 1 july 2019, end of life 26 may 2021)

Debian 10.0 DVD 2 DVD 3 sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 july 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Gnome (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 july 2019)

Debian 10.0 live Xfce (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 july 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXDE (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 july 2019)

Debian 10.0 live LXQt (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.19 (Release 6 july 2019)

CentOS 8.0 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 4.18 (Release 24 september 2019, end of life 31 may 2029)

2020-Corana Virus pandemic-I was down by the Vaccine.

Linux kernel 5.4 LTS / 5.6

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Haiku (BeOS) R1/beta 2 (DVD) sha256sum (Release 9 june 2020)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 april 2020, end of life april 2025)

Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 april 2020, end of life april 2025)

Kubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 april 2020, end of life april 2025)

Xubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 april 2020, end of life april 2025)

Lubuntu 20.04 LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 23 april 2020, end of life april 2025)

Fedora Workstation 32 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.6 (Release 28 april 2020, end of life 2021)

Fedora Server 32 (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.6 (Release 28 april 2020, end of life 2021)

Haiku (BeOS) R1/beta 2 (DVD) sha256sum (Release 9 june 2020)

Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 27 june 2020, end of life april 2025)

Linux Mint 20 MATE LTS (DVD) sha256sum Linux 5.4 (Release 27 june 2020, end of life april 2025)

2021 to this day

Debain 11 (It is one of my instances of 4 Debian installed) and Debain 12 of 3 instances in current use in my NUC.

PCLinux and Cutefish Linux

What is PCLinuxOS?

PCLinuxOS is a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for x86_64 desktops or laptops.

PCLinuxOS is distributed as a LiveCD/DVD/USB ISO image, and can also be installed to your computer. The LiveCD/DVD/USB mode lets you try PCLInuxOS without making any changes to your computer. If you like it, you can install the operating system to your hard drive. Locally installed versions of PCLinuxOS utilize the Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic, a GUI frontend to APT for easy software installation. PCLinuxOS has over 12,000 rpm software packages available from our software repository.

PCLinuxOS has a script called mylivecd, which allows the user to take a ‘snapshot’ of their current hard drive installation (all settings, applications, documents, etc.) and compress it into an ISO CD/DVD/USB image. This allows easy backup of a user’s data and also makes it easy to create your own custom liveCD/DVD/USB.

PCLinuxOS has additional support for over 85 language through our simple Addlocale interface.

PCLinuxOS is safe and secure. You never have to worry about viruses, adware, malware or trojans infecting your computer with PCLinuxOS.

The PCLinuxOS distribution was founded October 24, 2003 by Bill Reynolds aka Texstar and headquarters are located in Houston, TX USA.

What can I do with PCLinuxOS?

Everything you do with that other OS you can do with PCLinuxOS.

Internet tools : PCLinuxOS comes with a complete internet suite for surfing the net, sending and receiving email, instant messaging , blogging , tweeting and watching online video.

Photos: Edit photographs, upload and mange your photo collections with GIMP and Picasa software applications.

Music and Video: Listen, organize and stream mp3 music from your desktop. Sync your mp3 player with your music collection. Listen to streaming internet radio. Watch Youtube videos. Watch TV shows and movies online as well as DVDs. Design DVD slide shows and more. PCLinuxOS is a full multimedia operating system.

Productivity: LibreOffice allows you to edit documents, create presentations, work on spreadsheets, graphics and is available in many languages. Installation is easy through our LibreOffice Manager utility.

Where can I get a copy of PCLinuxOS?

Let me dish out Cutefish Linux to begin with.

It looks attractive but lacks functionality including WiFi connectivity.

There are enough bloated up Linux distributions already available what one is going to achieve by bringing another NEW Desktop Environment?

For me functionality is the base

Is somebody going to use it as a Daily Driver?

Lot of Linux distributions have gone dormant and I have no objections for them to be revived (they lost the user base and they could not keep their community intact). 

In additions, due to squabbling of some developers on trivial things, may have disrupted their developer energy. 

This should not happen in TQM style.

In Quality Management philosophy what matters is not an individual but the team.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Philosophy

Bill  Reynolds

 Now I come to PCLinux my heart throb that went into hibernation when Bill  Reynolds who was known as the Texstar (not the Cathedral and Bazaar guy) who left PCLinux Project when 64 bit version came to the market in 10 April, 2013. 

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a guy better known as "Texstar".

Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American Software Developer, open source software advocate and the author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. 

He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Raymond was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957 and lived in Venezuela as a child. His family moved to Pennsylvania in 1971. He developed cerebral palsy at birth; his weakened physical condition motivated him to go into computing.

Raymond began his programming career writing proprietary software, between 1980 and 1985. In 1990, noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983, he adopted it, but not without criticism.

Now I come to PCLinux my heart throb that went into hibernation when Textstar gave up.

Eric Steven Raymond (ESR), he is not the Texstar but the Cathedral and Bazaar and the open source activist with a lot of political baggage in him.

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a guy better known as "Texstar".

When he went Everything Collapsed and I gave up on PCLinux and moved to Debian where I remain to this day.

A good leader always leave behind a good team with capable hands.

In the corporate sector, even if the product is bad, like Microsoft Windows, the guys and girls hang on to the chips and a lot of money is exchanged, in between. 

They thrive on advertisements and Glossy appearance.

The Chines DeepIn is very glossy but a very poor product. 

This is what CuteFish guys and girls should consider. DeepIn guys survive due to state sponsorship and with the Windows Outage Russia and China survived. Russian Star Linux is not a good product.

Can the Cutefish guys and girls do the same when a catastrophe ensues?

That is my Big question.

Coming back to PCLinux;

It seems like it is revived in Turkey and Brazil.

KDE desktop seems neat and not bloated like Plasma but it could not configure our WiFi.

It's graphical Installer which is similar to Mandrake (now defunct) was pretty impressive then and the new one is even better.

They were bit late and I have chosen Netrunner as my second choice to Gnome which seamlessly integrates with Gnome.

Besides it supports Synaptic Package Manager and Gdebian Installer.

What else do I need?

Neptune OS is another KDE desktop which is attractive but it could not (as stated by them) make a persistent volume. 

That put me off after 24 hour trial.

It looks like I am reaching 300,000 hits on this blog site of which more than 100,000 hits are of my own hits.

My target was to reach 100,000 without any AD Money from Google.

I have achieved it but I keep a very close eye on forward march of Linux.

If I have revived interest in Linux lately (target is 10% of all PC users, currently 3%) and all my criticisms are constructive and not destructive.

Long Live Linux.

 

Lindows OS CD

Lindows OS CD

I have downloaded Lindows OS from Archive Linux site and run it on Box Utility.

After Puppy Linux my first entry to Installing Linux on 32 bit computer was Lindows. It was very refreshing memory to my Linux entry.

But heart throb was Mandrake Linux which I tested on Box and then I went Foresight Linux which was my last 32 bit entry of Redhat base. I could not get an old copy of Suss Linux to download and test. Fortunately Bliss Os did not boot on my NUC. I hate all Goggle Android and Their Studio OS. I have stated that elesewhere oin this blog site.

But Chimera OS is my latest discovery.

That is to play games only second to Batocera. 

Google has left a  copy for Debian but it crashed on installing.

That is the acid test for Android OS. 

Do not try it.