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Re: Roundup of Educational Linux DistributionsRe: Roundup of Educational Linux DistributionsPosted Jun 5, 2003 16:18 UTC (Thu) by X-Nc (guest, #1661)Parent article: Roundup of Educational Linux Distributions Some historical background on Linux distributions might be interesting here. The very first ever Linux distribution was MCC Interim Linux out of Manchester Collage. This "distro" was very similar to Coherent (if anyone remember that flavor of UNIX). Close on the heals of MCC was TAMU out of Texas A&M University. This was the first "distro" that had X and all that GUI stuff. Shortly after this saw the emergence of Yggdrasil and SLS followed by Slackware & Red Hat and all the other distros we all know and love today. IMO, it isn't surprising that Linux has strong roots in education. Joe P.S. Prior to all of the above was the very first Linux you could run on your own system; HJ Lu's Boot/Root floppies. P.P.S. In between HJ and MCC, a little document was written by a very cool (and quite cute) guy on how to get Linux installed and booted from your HD. It required editing the boot sector and all kind of nasty-yet-fun things but it was one of, if not the, very first HOW-TOs. This very cool and cute fellow is Erik "The" Ratcliffe (who will probably have numerous hit men on my trail shortly after reading this).
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