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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:47:25 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. It is the oldest distro still in existence. However, someone was dissatisfied with Slackware and created another distro a month later, in August 1993. This was Debian, the second oldest distro, founded by Ian Murdock. Both of these distros are still maintained, and Debian is often known as the "mother distro" because it has spawned many more distributions. #Linux #OpenSource #history

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:56:57 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the first distro in 1992, but it was buggy. So, it led to the creation of Slackware and Debian. I had never used SLS, so I started with Slackware.

   • Darth Sandwich 🏳️‍🌈 (darthsandwich@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:58:35 JST Darth Sandwich 🏳️‍🌈

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     @nixCraft
     <--- points to account pic.

     I still have my original Slackware install disks! (Some of them)

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:03:19 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     Debra Lynn (gf and later wife) wasn't directly involved in the Debian project itself. She was the inspiration for the name. Debra ("Deb") Lynn + Ian ("Ian" Murdock) == Debian. He combined their names and the rest is the history.

   • Justus Rajan (joshr846@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:13:14 JST Justus Rajan

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     @nixCraft Hi, I'm just a general user coming from the proprietary crowd who got into FOSS and Linux since 2017. I really enjoy the freedom of Linux. But one thing that really struck me as odd is that Linux is known for being the most stable OS, but I've almost always run into issues, including full OS crashes after updates and such. I've tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora and Endeavour.

   • T313C0mun1s7 (t313c0mun1s7@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:15:33 JST T313C0mun1s7

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     @nixCraft your concept of "first" seems a bit off to me. Yggdrasil was shipping in 1992 and predates both Slackware and Debian.

     On a re-read I see you actually said oldest still shipping. I must have picked up the first in my head elsewhere.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:15:33 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • T313C0mun1s7

     @T313C0mun1s7 can i offer you some green tea or strong black coffee? Haha. It happens. No issues.

   • James Mitchell (wotsac@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:20:06 JST James Mitchell

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     @nixCraft I used SLS. I don't really remember if it was buggy or not - remember that everything in free *nix land was a mess in 1992 - they were basically inventing a third way of OS architecture from scratch with toothpicks and bailing wire.

   • Amelia (amelia748@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:32:12 JST Amelia

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   • The Penguin of Evil (etchedpixels@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:33:08 JST The Penguin of Evil

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     I love the way bogus.org is still the Bogus linux distribution (first with an actual package manager) even though it's not been updated since 1994 and the site hasn't changed since 2003 except to add https:// support

     Still in existence, still available, not terribly useful but it's the mother of actual Linux package management.

   • René Seindal (seindal@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:47:23 JST René Seindal

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     @nixCraft
     I had crates of floppy disks from various versions of SLS in '92 and '93. Each version was around thirty 3.5" disks.

     CD-roms were so nice afterwards.

   • awb (awb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 05:00:23 JST awb

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     @nixCraft Here is an SLS ad from Byte September 1993. At $99 that was about the same price as Mark Williams Coherent, the other popular Unix clone for PCs at the time (although it was more limited in its features.) SCO Unix/386, which was an SVR3.2 port, would cost you upwards of $2,000.

   • Gilles Bonnet (gillesbonnet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:04:11 JST Gilles Bonnet

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     @nixCraft I did use SLS !!! Downloaded at 1200bauds

   • Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶 (catavz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 20:03:00 JST Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶

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     @nixCraft Linux family tree https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

   • TonK (tonk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 02:03:47 JST TonK

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     @nixCraft I started with SLS, somewhere end 1992, and switched to Slackware later on. Also used Yggdrasdil 😉