The end of the road for Eridani Linux [LWN.net]

From:		Eridani Star System <linux@eridani.co.uk>
To:		eridani-announce@eridani.co.uk
Subject:		[Eridani-Announce] Eridani Linux distribution is no more
Date:		Tue, 5 Aug 2003 01:43:36 +0100 (BST)

The end of the road has come for Eridani Linux.

There will be no further updates for Eridani Linux 6.3, and our advice to 
existing users is to upgrade to a current supported distribution.

As a direct effect of this, this mailing list will be disbanded and erased.

The FTP repository will remain in place, space permitting.

Eridani Star System is not disappearing, instead we are shifting our focus to 
our own Linux-based software projects.

-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell
MailStripper -- http://www.eridani.co.uk/MailStripper -- strips out spam
       ** Eureka (excl): Ancient Greek, "This Bath Is Too Hot" **

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The end of the road for Eridani Linux

Posted Aug 5, 2003 18:24 UTC (Tue) by vertigo (guest, #13695) [Link]

Sorry to see them go.
But it's good to see that they're still around, just in a different form.

And they've got a sense of humor about things - "MailStripper"? :-)

The end of the road for Eridani Linux

Posted Aug 7, 2003 19:04 UTC (Thu) by addw (guest, #1771) [Link]

We must expect more distributions to die, for whatever reason, over time. It would be very interesting, in years to come, to have a history of these: nothing big, but a few salient facts (birth, death, philosophy, final package list, ...) and maybe a copy of their final web pages and even iso image, disk is not expensive any more. Historians in 100 years would have plenty of PhD material!

LWN seems to have one of the best lists of distributions around and seems well placed to learn of such deaths. Could they perhaps do the above - creating a sort of Linux Valhalla ?

The end of the road for Eridani Linux

Posted Aug 8, 2003 0:06 UTC (Fri) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link]

I still have the masters for Eridani Linux (and the website). I would make ISOs available but trying to offer that over my ADSL line would kill it...

The last webpage for Eridani Linux 6.3 is at http://www.eridani.co.uk/e63historic.html - some menu entries are no longer links as they would generate 404 errors now.