On Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:58:54 -0500 [email protected] wrote: > With all due respects to Slackware, can't we find anything about > Devuan to discuss?
I think the Slackware discussion revolves around recognition that the evolution of Linux went right through Slackware. The following according to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg : Looks to me like the SLS distro was tied for the second oldest. The oldest was the never heard of MCC Interim, and the other tie for second was the never heard of TAMU. The oft mistaken for oldest yggdrasil was actually a couple months younger than SLS. A little more than a year after SLS was born, Patrick Volkerding forked SLS and called it Slackware. This fork was contemporaneous with the creation of Debian, and predated the creation of Red Hat by about four months. In other words, Slackware was a pioneer extremely influential on the adoption of Linux. Of the three 1993 distros still alive and still being forked today, Slackware was the closest to the metal (with Redhat being the most "user friendly", surprise surprise). Every Linux user, especially every Linux user who wants to get under the hood, owes a great deal to Patrick and Slackware. And of course, if Slackware perishes, that's one less sans-systemd distro, making Devuan a little less credible. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
