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Initially, back in the early 1990's I think it was the only "distribution" of Linux out there. It was either download Slackware to 3.5" floppies, or else hand-
by StevePerkins 5y ago
Initially, back in the early 1990's I think it was the only "distribution" of Linux out there. It was either download Slackware to 3.5" floppies, or else hand-roll your own distribution completely from scratch.
I think RedHat came along in the mid to late 90's. I jumped ship and never looked back, because RPM packages were so much more convenient then Slackware's hodgepodge of configure scripts and makefiles. Ubuntu then came along in the 2000's, around the time that RedHat got bought by IBM and became less cool, and that's been more or less the state of things ever since because Ubuntu-based distros tend to have better hardware detection and support.
- sidpatil 5y ago> Ubuntu then came along in the 2000's, around the time that RedHat got bought by IBM IBM bought Red Hat only three years ago.
- StevePerkins 5y agoYou're right. I am thinking about when the re-branded the "free as in beer" RedHat as "Fedora", with only a 6-month cycle.
- buescher 5y agoThere was SLS before it. By the time I could afford to cobble together a machine capable of running Linux, Slackware had superceded SLS and Red Hat and other distros you may have heard of didn't exist yet. Red Hat became the beginner's Linux very quickly after it was released. All this happened in a pretty short time frame from 1993-1996 or so.
- DoneWithAllThat 5y agoYggdrasil’s first release was a year before Slackware’s.