Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> said: > Chris Adams <[email protected]>: > > Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> said: > > > Tell it to Patrick Volkerding, who sweated to created the first Linux > > > distribution > > > > No, he didn't. > > Can you be more specific? Are we possibly having some definitional issue > about what constitutes a Linux distribution?
He started out releasing fixes/mods to SLS, which was a commercial distribution; the maker asked him to stop, so he started Slackware as a distinct distribution. Yggdrasil was also before Slackware IIRC, as were TAMU and MCC Interim. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]>
