Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:41:18 -0800 From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@nobaloney.net> To: Baldur Gislason <baldur@foo.is>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat Message-ID: <3C50D3DE.43C4F188@nobaloney.net> References: <20020122043807.91826.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> <02012207573506.08293@germanium>
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Baldur Gislason wrote: > There is such a distribution, it's called Slackware (www.slackware.com). > It uses BSD fashioned binary packages, BSD style init scripts and the > installer installer is quite similiar to the FreeBSD one, also they've proven > to make a much higher quality distribution than most other Linux > distributions (They only include software that has proven itself, and they > seem to test things before releasing) Though I'm not sure, I think Slackware was the first "real" usable Linux distribution. I do know that the first Linux I ran, kernel v. 0.99 (I had one of the first webhosting companies, at the end of 1994), was a slackware distribution; I still have the CD-ROM. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman <jblists@nobaloney.net> nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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