[CLUE-Tech] " In the beginning was Slackware"?

[Dennis J Perkins]

If I understand your question, MCC is the Minnesota Computing 
Consortium.  I think it is or was the computer network for Minnesota's 
eductional system.  I think Patrick was a student at Concordia College 
in Moorhead, MN, when he assembled Slackware.

I'm not sure that Red Hat was based on Slackware.  I recall reading that 
Erik Troan or Donnie Barnes was selling a Red Hat Linux distro from his 
dorm room.  The first version of Caldera, on the other hand, used Red 
Hat, and started to differentiate in later versions.

I think there was a quasi-distro put together by university students at 
the time Slackware came out, but I can't remember any name for it.


David J Jackson wrote:

>> 
>> There was a distro called "SLS" (I think) before Slackware,
>> but I believe that Red Hat and SuSE were based on Slack.
>> Slackware was based on SLS and the fixes Patrick put into it.
>> Think you have a lot of disk swapping now? Slackware used to
>> be a big 'ol pile of floppies.
>> 
> 
> Zonker --
> I know all about those floppies, having d/l them from sunsite.
> If memory serves me right, my first CD was 3.0, when did Linux switch from a.out
> to elf?
> I once asked Patrick (and he answered) about the relationship between Slack and
> SuSE,
> he said it was basicaly just trading info, not actually developement.
> Then then was MCC ?
> 
> Thanks for reply,
> David
> 
> 
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