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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/27/19 3:21 PM, Eric S. Raymond
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Chris Adams <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cma@cmadams.net"><cma@cmadams.net></a>:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></a> said:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Tell it to Patrick Volkerding, who sweated to created the first Linux
distribution
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No, he didn't.
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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?
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<p>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?).</p>
<p>Debian was released so close to Slackware as to be essentially
simultaneous (5 months).<br>
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<p>And then there were a few other minor distros.</p>
<p>There's a pretty good family tree at <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#History">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#History</a></p>
Now, if you mean, the oldest EXTANT distribution, that WOULD be
Slackware.<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
<p>Miles Fidelman<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown</pre>
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