Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
Reminder about alternatives:<p>For the less extreme case, when you want mostly one distro, but also a few packages from another one, there is “alien” [0] which converts between different package formats. It sometimes needs help with system integration or dependencies, but occasionally “just works”<p>For a more extreme case, there is a schroot (or a docker container) with /home, audio and X mapped in. Works surprisingly well for desktop apps, like those embedded IDEs which require a specific Linux distribution you don’t want to run. You do have manage desktop integration (menu items, file associations) yourself though.<p>Those solutions are hard to set up than bedrock, but they also do not have special filesystem magic, so I bet they are much easier to debug.<p>[0] <a href="https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/alien/alien.1p.en.html" rel="nofollow">https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/alien/alien.1p.en.html</a>