[OLPC-devel] Re: offtopic - distributions history (was: #59: Marvell wireless won't run from LinuxBIOS)

[supat at supat.eu.org]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> supat wrote:
>> NO! slackware did exist in 1991 !!!
>
> I bet Patrick Volkerding would be very surprised to learn that -
> http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of some earlier distribution, such as SLS (from
> which Slackware was derived)? But even the first two (MCC and TAMU) were
> only released in February of 1992.

I am in the history. And in my memory SLS should come before MMC
I don't beleive in writing said TAMU/MCC born before SLS.

I install SLS from 4 a series diskette in 1991.

I insist an exact date should be in 1991 not 1992.

I will take a look on my kept diskette.

Thank you FYI.

supat


> This is very off topic for this list, of course, but I think it does
> illustrate that you might want to pay more careful attention to the
> replies you are receiving in the various threads and think about them,
> perhaps even research a little, instead of just reacting as quickly as
> possible.
>
> -- Jecel
>