OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure]
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Thu Jun 27 19:34:36 UTC 2019
On 6/27/19 3:21 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>:
>> Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> said:
>>> Tell it to Patrick Volkerding, who sweated to created the first Linux
>>> distribution
>> No, he didn't.
> Can you be more specific? Are we possibly having some definitional issue
> about what constitutes a Linux distribution?
>
> It is certainly possible you are right and all my other informants are
> wrong, but... facts, please?
Certainly offtrack, but it only takes a little googling to find
Softlanding, which was the predecessor of Slackware, and a few more
(anybody remember Yggdrasil?).
Debian was released so close to Slackware as to be essentially
simultaneous (5 months).
And then there were a few other minor distros.
There's a pretty good family tree at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#History
Now, if you mean, the oldest EXTANT distribution, that WOULD be Slackware.
Miles Fidelman
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