How To Test Drive 200+ Linux Distributions Without Ever Downloading Or Installing Them

[Michael L]

I was going to ask (and will still take everyone's input on) what is the best way to test different Linux distros-  

One good resource is

Https://distrotest.net 

I saw it from this article on my Google feed,

From Discover on Google https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/06/15/how-to-test-drive-200-linux-distributions-without-ever-downloading-or-installing-them/amp/

[Csaba Toth]

So, I tried funtoo on that distrotest, but there's no network access. There's not even an ethX device.

Is there anybody here, who tried a distro but had network? Please let me know if just the funtoo lacked network or others as well. In some forums I found traces that some others lacked network as well.

I'm using Devuan for a couple of years now and I'm eyeing funtoo.

Cheers!

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[Michael L]

I've tried 3 distros so far, a couple times I had to wait 2 or 3 minutes through queue of about 25.  It's slower than a local machine, but no setup time

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[Michael L]

And yes, I also sometimes get the message about too many systems running ... please try again later 

[Kent Perrier]

I would not expect the network to be working on any of them. They don't want to be hosting a bot net.

I started up a pop!_os session and all it had was lo0.

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[Michael L]

I got Funtoo booted on the site, 3rd time's a charm 

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[Csaba Toth]

The wait time does not bother me. Maybe I was not clear. It's that once I get the box the booted up distro does not have any network connection whatsoever. I cannot install even a midnight commander.

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[Michael L]

Trying Funtoo, I do see something different, more like what you're describing

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[Csaba Toth]

Well, once you get your slot you have like 85 minutes to spare. It'd be quite inefficient vehicle for a botnet, especially how they struggle with the demand now that the site became popular.

Funtoo boots into command prompt, which doesn't scare me at all, but I'd like to see how the UI looks by default and operates compared to Devuan/Xfce.

At command prompt I always install midnight commander, because you can explore the file system like at least 100x faster than just typing clunky commands at the command prompt? That's a behavior I carry since the DOS Norton Commander / Volkov Commander days, and most people don't know how efficient this can be because they haven't ever tried it.

Anyway, LiveCD is still a venue.

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[Csaba Toth]

There is an sshd running though. I wonder if somehow the internet could be reverse tunneled through that sshd.

[Patrick McAfee]

Funtoo boots to a command prompt because it's Gentoo based and things need to compile. You're not going to get a GUI with a Gentoo based distro unless it's setup for it.

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[Csaba Toth]

I know it's Gentoo derivate, I was just hoping originally that they (distrotest) might have used some builds like this: https://www.funtoo.org/Amd64-zen

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