Comments on: 4 Major Distros in the History of Linux That Shaped the Linux World

By: lancest

lancest — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:08:32 +0000

I'm use (EOS) Arch now and love it. I believe Ubuntu deserves credit as first polished desktop. My DD productivity system during 2000's. Changed everything.

By: glennmcc

glennmcc — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 19:52:42 +0000

In your ARCH section you mention…

“As a result, the user got something new for the Linux world – install once and use it forever by simply updating the system regularly and constantly staying with the bleeding-edge software. What today, we call the rolling release model.”

However, you failed to mention that exactly the same ‘install once and use it forever’ system exists in Slackware
via the use of the slackware-current repository.

By: gelvis

gelvis — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:16:51 +0000

In reply to TJ Bruce. Yeah. I remember SUSE from those days. Do not remember if I tried it out. But think I tried it out along with Slackware, Debian and Red Hat. Ended up with Red Hat and the variations of that by the end of the 90s

By: Bobby Borisov

Bobby Borisov — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:11:56 +0000

In reply to Ken Dotson.

Hey Ken,

Mandrake was the first Linux distro I fell in love with, winning me over to the FOSS cause. 🙂

Best,
Bobby

By: Ken Dotson

Ken Dotson — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:27:18 +0000

You listed the distros I would have listed as the ones that really got the ball rolling.

I started playing around with Linux the year before Slackware and Debian were released using TAMU Linux. I haven’t used commercial, closed-sourcs software since. On the laptop I use the most, I triple boot with tow your listed distros, Slackware and Arch, included and the third being Gentoo.

I would submit a couple of honorable mentions as well, though by no means did they have the kind of foundational influence as those four:
1. as far as ease of configuration, SUSE was ahead of just about anyone with YAST, and
2. a distro that brought a huge number of newcomers into the community because it was so user-friendly that it made Linux accessible to users of Windows without much of learning curve, and that was Mandrake.

By: Frank Hollmann

Frank Hollmann — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:18:20 +0000

The concept of a „Linux distribution“ was invented by Softlanding Linux System (SLS). Debian and Slackware had their origins in SLS. So SLS shaped the Linux world …

By: SteveOS/2

SteveOS/2 — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:00:02 +0000

PearOS was incredible.

By: rjadot

rjadot — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:49:55 +0000

In reply to JohnIL. Knoppix and Mandrake, obviously Ubuntu too :)

By: JohnIL

JohnIL — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 22:36:28 +0000

Linux would gain more traction if it would see a thinning out of distro’s to focus on only a few which could combine developers into working together to produce a really good
release. Instead we have far to many going their own direction which only seems to complicate advancing Linux. It shows too, as users are divided up within all these distro’s which doesn’t help matters. The Linux community is its own worst enemy.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 05:50:27 +0000

In reply to Alpheus. Robin, Knoppix is actually based on Debian Stable, although Knoppix did introduce the ability to run Linux without committing to installing it to a hard drive.