The First Linux Distro?

[Mark Komarinski]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 09:48:46AM -0700, Whelan, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> I was reading on http://www.topologilinux.com (in their About page under
> the FAQ section question regarding "Is topologilinux based on any other
> big distro") where they say that it's based on Slackware the "First and
> still the most stable distribution".  I'll leave the "most stable
> distribution" part alone but was curious about "First".  I may be
> misinformed but thought that Yggdrasil was the first real distribution. 
> To be sure, it wasn't the first "build" (I use that only for a lack of a
> better word right now).  Because other sites had their own build of
> Linux available for download via ftp, such as University of Manchester,
> TAMU, Softlanding Linux System.  But wasn't Yggdrasil the first to
> distribute on CD?

Well, Slackware is the first distro that's still around in popularity.
I would say that it's not the first.  I remember TAMU/SLS/MCC 'interim' and
they were all pre-Slackware.  And they were distributions in the fact that they
were more than just the kernel.

-Mark
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