Great-OS (Grat-OS) is an independent Linux distribution made in France. All packages are built by the project.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME, LXDE, LXQt, KDE Plasma, Xfce, Pantheon, Enlightenment |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | Cards (Create, Add, Remove and Download System) |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | See comment section |
| Developer: | Grat-OS |
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Hmm, NuTyx is a GNU/Linux OS distribution of Swss origin, primarily French language, which was created back on November 28th, 2007 using the CARDS package manager specially created for this distribution.
GratOS, a French language GNU/Linus OS distribution using the CARDS package manager was launched in 2021 and is not even listed on Distrowatch.
Y a-t-il eu une séparation d’amitié?
Great-OS is an interesting distro and warrants inclusion on our Big List.
Not sure about your point re the package manager used. There are already too many package management systems available, so there’s no issue there.
The Big List aims to cover all actively developed Linux distributions. I’m going to compile an expanded version which will be more useful.
I’ve never liked such generically named distros. The same goes with PCLinuxOS & Linux Lite, etc.
100% agree with you Torin. It’s not a good name but at least it wasn’t Mildy-Average-OS 🙂
Hello, Great-OS creator here, I’m very surprised to see my distro here, thank you. Indeed it’s not listed on distrowatch yet, because i believe it’s not fully ready yet.
cards is still being used indeed it’s the package manager from NuTyX, but the distro is a LFS based.
I have known NuTyX creator tnut and worked with him previously. I wanted to do my own and follow my own vision. At that time NuTyX had 3 different init systems and I trully believed a single one ( systemd ). Rems who successfully made a NuTyX work with systemd (it was called YaoLinux) joined me on that new distro.
We first chose a funny name in french: gratos (which stands for free) but decided to rename it to a future wider audience: Great-OS.
Btw the new website is a WIP and will be hosted at great-os.org
OK, if you’d be so kind to drop a comment when your new website is up, I’ll update the entry. The current URL appears dead.