@BGL You wot.
Oh, right, uhh. Ok then.
So basically the internet has a lot of wield shit on it right. I love my wierd shit. Sometimes the weird shit is better than the normal shit. Its pretty great when that happens. So here's some weird shit that I love.
AROS/ Icaros: http://aros.sourceforge.net http://vmwaros.blogspot.com
Talked about these before but never got around to making a post. Essentially AROS is the code base and Icaros is the main distribution that is used, just so that is clear. AROS is an X86 based AmigaOS 3.1-3.5 (in that span of AmigaOS but you can build up to 3.9 very easily). The system over all is exactly the same. The interface has some added on bits but over all the entire system runs all the same as before and its even designed the same way via memory management for big endian chips (M68K). All the apps are 16 kb - 80 kb and it uses less than 2 mb ram to host the system on whatever hardware you need. Also, all your amiga apps will work! There is a list of pretty specific desktop motherboards to use but overall I have found that 99% of my laptops work with it. On the Icaros site there is a list of working wireless cards if you want to use it on the network otherwise be ready to haul stuff over via USB. Personally I am waiting for a powerpc port or an ARM port so my powerbook or raspt have an actual use.
AmigaOS 4.1: http://www.amigaos.net
Thought Amiga was dead and thats why AROS exists didn't you? NOPE. NO SIR! AmigaOS is still used today by millions of people! Maybe not as a main system, but Amiga users around the world have purchased this for their modded A1200's or their up-to-date powerpc workstation (there is a version for both :D )! Basically its amigaOS continued on. It may say final edition on it but itsthe last version of 4.1 because they have been in 4.1 for something like 6 years. But basically it adds some new features. Supposedly there might kinda maybe be AMDGPU drivers coming to the main amigaOS as a lot of people bought 250's, 250X's, 260's, and 270's, and in IRC I see a lot of users come in with their custom boxes that they built and wanting to know how to make a 380X work because it was on sale and their last card died or something. WHY? I don't know. Beats me why you would need a GPU that big for amiga but maybe someone is doing cool shit. Although, it DOES have modern blender support (AROS does too) so it would make sense to me they want it for rendering models... Hmmm.... ~mystery~
Sorcerer Linux: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sorcerer
Its not active anymore, but I just found it hilarious. Someone went to the distrowatch page and fixed why it was funny because one of the devs was in an IRC one day (as I know the story, sorcerer has always been somewhat of a joke) and was going on and on about his linux distro he was making. You didn't install from tarballs or source you installed from "magic" and "spells". He got kicked for acting like a dick to people after a while. Still makes me laugh.
Menuet: http://menuetos.net
Heres a good one I specifically have a love for. Want to see how fast your computer can actually do things? Want to have an OS install that is literally 80mb? No its not DOS, its Menuet! Menuet is an ALL ASSEMBLY OS. ALL of it is teeny tiny bits of assembly talking directly to the hardware. I have not used it myself, but it will definitely make your old pentium 1 in the corner run as well as that xeon under your desk with ubuntu in it :P Its X86 and X64 compatible and runs on anything. Though the author of the OS says on the site it might be better to run this as a VM to see if you even want to bother or not. I know I do.
Last is Kolibri: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kolibri
A fork of Menuet with actual video and wireless drivers packed in. Its the same thing with more color and an active up-to-date code base that is worked on by quite a few people. I dunno about Menuet's update status but I know Kolibri gets the front page of distrowatch every once in a while.
There are some other REALLY wierd ones that I know of but no one is going to be able to run them so it's more a "This could have happened" or "This existed once" or "This is for intel Itantum!". No one has UNIX hardware from '92 I am pretty sure and I am definite that no one here has itanium and if you do you're crazier than I am. So I'll let those others sit until I do a post on all of the weird shit I have found over the years. For now, enjoy the odd crap I look up all the time.