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As Specialized A Linux Distro As You're Likely to Find
You want proof there's a Linux distribution for absolutely every possible application? Here's one for you: Hikarunix, a distro dedicated to Go players and based on the ever-versatile Damn Small Linux (DSL). Go, in this case, is not the very funny 1999 movie, but the Asian strategy game. It's vaguely similar to checkers or Othello, over 4,000 years old, and is said to be a whole order of magnitude more difficult than chess. (The line I've used to describe it is, "Chess is one battle. Go is the whole war.") I play the game intermittently, and I'm bad enough that I get consistently whomped by just the computer, never mind the human players. (The "Hikaru" part of Hikarunix is a reference to Hikaru no Go, a manga / anime series with a small but deeply enthusiastic following about a young Go player and his rise to mastery.)
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