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I remember my first Linux distro, Monkey Linux, downloaded from the BBS. It fits on 5 floppy disks, with XFree86. You have to use `arj` to extract it, an altern
by jjuliano 7y ago
I remember my first Linux distro, Monkey Linux, downloaded from the BBS. It fits on 5 floppy disks, with XFree86. You have to use `arj` to extract it, an alternative to `pkunzip` during that time.
(http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/monkey-6.0 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/monk...).
SuSE invented LiveCD, AFAIR, years before Knoppix claims to be the first LiveCD Linux in the late 90s.
- danieldk 7y agoSuSE invented LiveCD, AFAIR, years before Knoppix claims to be the first LiveCD Linux in the late 90s. Yggdrasil Linux was earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
- fit2rule 7y agoYggdrasil was amazing. It single-handedly helped me sell Linux to many a grizzled greybeard, who couldn't believe that this toy kernel would amount to anything .. all I had to do was boot the CD and show them a working X-terminal a few minutes later, and that was all it took: I spent days copying those CD's for the entire team.
- jtaft 7y agoMandrake, Slackware, then Gentoo here. Curious, do you remember when user contributable/rolling package managers became popular? Back in 2000 when I wanted latest software, I remember having to resolve dependencies manually (view compile errors, then yahoo/google for libraries and errors). Each dependency had to be compiled manually, sometimes requiring patching code to get things to play nice. This was always a headache lol, but felt awesome once things actually compiled.
- jjuliano 7y agoDebian is the first distro to allows volunteer to maintain packages. Then Ubuntu releases Hoary and gives invitation to be a MOTU maintainer with hangout channel in FreeNode, later on, Mercurial was released and Launchpad.net was created during Dapper days at the time where GIT is not yet mainstream, which gives way to PPA packages, then after a year, ArchLinux gains popularity, which allows anyone to submit packages using `yaourt`, a custom package manager on top of `pacman`.