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LinusTorvalds released his first LinuxDistribution in 1991. This consisted of just two floppy disks, called "boot" and "root"; the first was the boot disk, which then asked you to put in the second one, which was mounted as the root filesystem. |
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This was quickly picked up and expanded by groups at Manchester University, Texas A&M University and others. The most popular early distro was SLS (SoftLanding Systems), which had no PackageManagement to speak of; instead, all software components were built as part of a single monolithic installation. The problems with this led Ian Murdock to found the [Debian] project in 1994. RedHat was also started the same year. Many others soon followed. |
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!! See Also |
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* Linux Journal, ''[The Ultimate Distro|http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000150]'' |
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* Rob Landley's [computer history links|http://landley.net/history/mirror/index.html], including a large collection of links on Linux history. |
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* Eric Kidd's ''A History of "Open Source"'', parts [1|http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg019844.html] and [2|http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg019851.html]. |
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* Nikolai Bezroukov's [Portraits of Open Source Pioneers |http://www.softpanorama.org/People/index.shtml] some interesting facts and links, accompanied by somewhat lower-quality commentary. |
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* The Linux Distribution Timeline (PNG image): http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6663/44218linuxdistrotimelinqv0.png. |
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* Another [Linux distribution timeline|http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/staticpages/index.php?page=20070528113740321]. |
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* [The Story Of RPM|http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/02/08/the-story-of-rpm/]. |
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* Some interesting titbits and links in a sidebar to this [IBM DeveloperWorks article|http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dev26/]. |
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* [The Minix Connection|http://www.winface.com/freax.html]. |
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* Phoronix' "Visual History" series, covering [Fedora|http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=678&num=1] and [Ubuntu|http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=664&num=1]. |
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* The [history of glibc and Linux libc|http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/history_of_glibc_and_linux_libc] at Free Software Magazine. |
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* [Chapter 18|http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005092215442318] and later of Peter Salus's [The Daemon, The Gnu & The Penguin|http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859]. |
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* [Oldlinux.org|http://oldlinux.org/] -- ancient kernel sources in cross-referenced browseable form, various other bits of ancient kernel info. |