crunchbang is the closest i could come by..
Please say your not talking Linux distro, we love this site but no one, and I mean no one has time to build and compile a linux distro for a forum. I like this site to, but I don't have the skill nor time to do such a thing, some of you might, but the general consensus on an app is still up in the air, so how in highLANder are we going to get together and build a linux distro?!
it was brought up a couple times before, and people were serious about doing it, not from scratch or anything (i think they were leaning towards a redhat base)
long story short; it's a stupid idea
It's fairly simple to do a distro-specific respin.
The issue I see would be in using "TS" branding/trademarks in the public domain.
However, a distro respin could be done over a weekend quite easily for one or two people who know what they are doing.
Besides, the Tek don't actively promote F/OSS or use linux do they so there's be that, which makes it kind of moot.
When this was first brought up about a year or more ago, I made a distro on susestudio with all the trimmings and posted the link. It was not downloaded much.
There is also little use to a TS distro. TS could not offer any support to a bunch of linux noobs, why would TS brand a linux distro (which is legal by the way, linux is GPL/GNU licensed, it's quite possible to make a distro an brand it whilst still respecting the GPL T&C).
There are also a lot of really good distros available already. Manjaro is quite popular nowadays for home desktop and laptop use. Spatry has made a (mostly optical) mix of Manjaro called "Cup of Linux", an that's quite popular too, but it's more a gimmick than anything else. It's a good way to get more people using linux and open source though.
Another big problem is that there is no commercial marketing money to be had from linux for home users/consumers. The best example of this is Valve: they have brought out a custom remix of Debian for commercial use (even though it's not really officially released yet), but at the same time, they block linux versions of games with a large commercial money-making potential, like CS:GO, from being released, even though the linux versions of these games were actually made a really long time ago (the linux version of CS:GO exists for almost two years now, but Valve won't release it because it's still such a huge cash cow). You can't make money on sponsorship from peripheral manufacturers for a game on linux, because all of the useless premium features of those peripheral products exist only in Windows, because they solve problems that only exist in Windows with software that only exists for Windows. The whole "shut up and pay, slave!" scam just doesn't work in linux... This is not something TS can do anything against, they have to follow the business as it is and their main audience is in the US, which is a linux-hostile territory. For example: Google doesn't offer YouTube videos with ads on HTML5, and most linux users just don't install the proprietary and shitty Shockwave Flash extensions on their machines. That means that TS would have the choice to either forgo ad revenue on their content so that it can be offered in HTML5 (because even when users would use youtube-dl to view the content it wouldn't be counted by Google as an ad view, even though the content would be viewed from the flash version, and people would only be able to see the video in a browser without flash if they would use an ad blocker, which doesn't help TS much either, it's all the same net result), or to move away from YouTube as a content distribution platform and move to Vimeo or Dailymotion or a European video distribution site, which is probably not a good idea for a content producer focused on the US market and producing English-only content. TS has to live with the limitations imposed by the corporate monopolies in the US, there is only so much they can do. I think it's great already that they don't avoid linux, which is something most North-American content producers do.
Another thing is that open source is so diverse, that people that use linux for a small amount of time, customize their own distro. There is really no point in making a "standard" distro, because that would only amount to a limitation of the freedom of choice of the users. There is a "standard" distro already, it's called Ubuntu, and it sucks balls. Even Canonical is now bringing out a non-standard MATE version of their own distro, with Unity and the usual crap, and that's after throwing out the community Ubuntu-based distros like Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu+Gnome, Lubuntu, etc...