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The Three Giants of Linux (Linux Magazine)
Linux Magazine takes a
look at the Linux distribution ecosystem. "By the time Slackware
came onto the scene, there were already half a dozen Linux distributions. A
few months later however, on August 16th 1993, one of the most important
was about to emerge all on its own, which today takes the crown for the
oldest surviving independently developed Linux distribution. Meet
Debian. Debian was not a fork of any previous work, but an independent
project in its own right, created by Ian Murdock. Entirely community
driven, Debian remains the largest non-commercial distributor of Linux.
Almost one year after the birth of Debian, in 1994 the third and final
member of the most influential distributions arrived on the scene, Red Hat
Linux."
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