Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

Thu Jun 27 22:50:46 UTC 2019

Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> said:
> 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?

He started out releasing fixes/mods to SLS, which was a commercial
distribution; the maker asked him to stop, so he started Slackware as a
distinct distribution.  Yggdrasil was also before Slackware IIRC, as
were TAMU and MCC Interim.

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Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>