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PCLinuxOS is the bastard child of mageia, itself the child of mandriva, of mandrake and conectiva, the last a very, very excellent RH derivative from way back but loved by its Brazilian parents and truly groundbreaking. Live upgrades between major distro versions!
It's an RPM distro - thus massive validity checks all the way down - with highly versatile app versioning and ranges, and no fucking systemd.
It just has a terrible installer and no templates or boxes for vagrant / etc.
I don't think it's mentioned here yet: Siduction
More well known but less common as a desktop: Alpine
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