The First Linux Distro?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 1, 2004, at 12:48, Whelan, Paul wrote:

> 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.

I didn't get into Linux until early '94 but at the time Slackware was 
pretty well entrenched and people in the community were wondering if 
they should try Yggdrasil.  I didn't actually have a CD-ROM drive until 
that summer so I was installing from 3.5 floppy onto a 150MB Bernoulli 
Disk hanging off a SoundBlaster 16 card with an integrated Adaptec 
SCSI-2 controller.  I got an Apple CD-300 and shared it between my 
Powerbook 170 and Gateway 486/25 and soon subscribed to the InfoMagic 
CD subscription (that was a great deal!) and kept on using the new 
Slackware releases as needed until RedHat came out with it's beautiful 
curses installer.

As to 'most stable' I've run into unresolvable and/or circular 
dependency problems with both rpm and dpkg (dpkg more) so frequently of 
late that I'm about to give up on that method.  Nice idea, but 'works 
sometimes' isn't quite enough.  I'm interested in finding out if ports 
does any better.  But since Slackware doesn't attempt such feats it 
doesn't suffer such problems, so from that perspective it is more 
stable.

-Bill
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