• fubo@lemmy.world
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          SLS and Yggdrasil came out in '92; Slackware in '93; Red Hat in '95.

          The Debian project started in '93, but the first stable release wasn’t until '96, along with Linux kernel version 2.0.

          Ubuntu didn’t come along until 2004.

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      According to this, the first was Boot-Root from Torvalds himself in 1991. The oldest that are still around are Slackware (July 1993) and Debian (Aug 1993).

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      The fact that Ubuntu is derived from Debian logically means it wasn’t the first Linux-based OS.

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          This is gonna blow your mind. There this thing called the internet, and people put loads of information on it. You can access this using “websites” called “search engines” that index all the content.

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      Slackware was the first real distro, which means you could reasonably expect to get to a bootable state by following the manual, and have a useful system out of the box.
      And it’s the oldest that’s still around.