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

David J Jackson david.j.jackson at pickledbeans.com
Mon Apr 22 19:26:54 MDT 2002


Jeff --
What do you mean "up to four months", what happened four months.

David


Jeffery Cann wrote:

> On Monday 22 April 2002 10:06 am, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Jeffery Cann wrote:
> > > SLS was the 'first' Linux distribution.
> >
> > Hmmm ... I used to use SLS.  It seems like that was a long time ago
> > now.  However, I disagree that it was the "first" distribution.  If
> > memory serves me correctly there were serveral others that predated or at
> > the very least coincided with SLS at this time in ancient Linux
> > history.  One that comes to mind was the MCC distribution.
>
> Wayde -
>
> I agree that SLS is probably not really the first distribution, and that's
> why I quoted the word 'first'.  Like much of history, it's certainly up for
> discussion.  Since Slack was my first and only distribution (since 1995)
> until 4 months ago, I never used (or new about) SLS other than that Slack was
> based on it and most folks seemed to call it the 'first' Linux distribution.
>
> This would certainly be a good time for some digital archeology!  Any Indiana
> Jones's lurking?
>
> Jeff
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