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What does un-distro mean?

Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's using a distro. You go around the circle to distroless, and on the other end of the circle, close to using a distro, but not using a distro, is un-distro.

Paraphrased in jest from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OEO79B-CZ4

Seems they use it to highlight it's not just distroless but also kernel-less[1].

[1]: https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/introducing-wolfi-the-f... (last section)

It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out that a it's a Linux distro without the Linux kernel, so it's really an "unLinux distro", or an (un)distro for short.

The last section in the link helped, but I have to say, the circle analogy made very little sense to me. Thank you for clarifying nonetheless.

> the circle analogy made very little sense to me

Yeah, was just a silly connection I made to the sample used in the track[1]. From a documentary on LSD[2].

[1]: https://www.psydb.net/release/hallucinogen-the-lone-deranger...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm6-THvnf44

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