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most obscure and to me coolest but unfortunately not very active https://sourcemage.org/
i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it's not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.
I remember reading about it like 10 years ago along with LunarLinux (e: and sorcerer) as was curious about other source based linux distros. I thought both were dead, glad that at least sourcemage is still alive
its always a bit hard to tell with source distros.