The First Linux Distro?

[Carl Helmers]

My .02$ on the subject: My introduction to
Linux (and X) was getting the Slackware
CD distribution loaded into a slow, old
PC class in the summer of 1995...  

A source of info for this inquiring mind
was that big fat Yggdrasil telephone
book of a manual.  If I recall, that 
book had a CD in it.  But the only early
Linux that I successfully achieved a root
prompt from was a Slackware CD distribution
at the end of 1995.

(Since the late 1980's I had been experimenting
with SCO Xenix as a Unix for one PC now long gone
so I was familiar with Unix as on OS at the time...)

The goal was to get a Perl engine going, as 
well as learning emacs and e-lisp to create 
a set of utility macros for personal use in 
a music database project.  Resuming that project
is a goal as I get back into Linux with 
more recent distributions now that life is 
settling down again...


            . . . Carl

PS: After a year long process of moving my 
piano, much furniture and survivors of a year
long process of culling 20 years if "junk" I 
now reside in the Rochester, NY area.  I get to
NH physically on occasion these days after
after a 6++ hour drive each way...  so I am
not likely to be at future gnhlug or monadlug 
meetings in person.

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-----Original Message-----
From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org
To: discuss at gnhlug.org
Sent: 10/1/04 12:48 PM
Subject: The First Linux Distro?

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?

Not *totally* sure. That's why I'm asking.
Thanks.

Paul Whelan
(Tel (603) 791-6519 (cell: (603) 422-1004
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