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The Ultimate Distro (Linux Journal)

Posted Dec 28, 2006 17:44 UTC (Thu) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
Parent article: The Ultimate Distro (Linux Journal)

"Windows... trapped within the carapace of its closed source, only slouches towards Redmond to be born every five years or so."

I think of it more in terms of a salmon, struggling to swim upstream, against the current of Free/Open-Source Software, which finally returns to its spawning grounds, only to find them polluted.

Can anyone thing of a vegan version?

PS: The "Linux distribution timeline" is great! So many more distributions were "spawned" from Debian, then from RedHat or any of the other 'original' distros...

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Linux distribution timeline

Posted Dec 28, 2006 18:04 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Quite a few Red Hat offshots are missing (Yellow Dog comes to mind), as are Fedora's children (for example, Aurora Linux). If you just look at the Distributions page here, there alone are some 300 currently active distributions listed. The timeline is more of a very rough outline of the distribution history.