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a bit outdated, perhaps partial, :) https://sourcemage.org/History
As I said, way cool the codex, the grimoire, the spells, the casting, the dispelling, scribe, resurrect, summon, and so on. And as well as with other source based distros, with the advantages on x86 to really get binaries for the CPU in the HW... I moved to Arch when realizing it was not possible for me to keep up with all the building, and I was strict about rebuilding the whole system when there were gcc upgrades for example (but it was cool as well to experience how simple it was with sourcemage to rebuild everything, keeping in mind dependencies and all that), and then to Artix when, ohh well, doesn't matter any more... Next, probably Guix, but one can easily get to miss the AUR, and easy of creating a self custom repo. With sourcemage and arch/artix creating our own custom packages, and our own custom repos is really easy and fast, which is hard to compete against, and then one can really get addict to the AUR, :)