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

David J Jackson david.j.jackson at pickledbeans.com
Sun Apr 21 21:01:03 MDT 2002


Jeff --
We are of course referring to "The One True Path to Linux Enghtenment" are we
not.

I came across this link also on google. There also a page on Slackware that
pretty much says the sames thing. Another early distro mentioned was MCC.

David

Jeffery Cann wrote:

> SLS was the 'first' Linux distribution.  But it had some problems which
> Patrick Volkerding addressed.  This became Slackware.
>
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue31/hughes.html
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 06:19 pm, David Jackson wrote:
> > So speaketh the Linux-Distro Howto.
> >
> > But the question is what is the History from the Distro point of view?
> > I seem to recall a reference a semi-distribution, before Slack, and
> > of course Yggdrasil Plug & Play. The Howto also says "In Europe of course,
> > Slackware reigned."?
> >
> > David
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