From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 24 19:41:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.nobaloney.net (joshua.nobaloney.net [63.108.93.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B804C37B402 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:41:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobaloney.net (adsl-64-170-55-19.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.55.19]) (authenticated) by ns1.ns-one.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g0P3fGH01570; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:41:17 -0800 Message-ID: <3C50D3DE.43C4F188@nobaloney.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:41:18 -0800 From: Jeff Lasman Organization: nobaloney.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baldur Gislason , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat References: <20020122043807.91826.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> <02012207573506.08293@germanium> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Baldur Gislason wrote: > There is such a distribution, it's called Slackware (www.slackware.com). > It uses BSD fashioned binary packages, BSD style init scripts and the > installer installer is quite similiar to the FreeBSD one, also they've proven > to make a much higher quality distribution than most other Linux > distributions (They only include software that has proven itself, and they > seem to test things before releasing) Though I'm not sure, I think Slackware was the first "real" usable Linux distribution. I do know that the first Linux I ran, kernel v. 0.99 (I had one of the first webhosting companies, at the end of 1994), was a slackware distribution; I still have the CD-ROM. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message