• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 days ago

      Here’s a picture of the linux distro family tree:

      There’s Debian, the distro.

      There’s Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

      there’s gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

      There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

      there’s arch for people who want to feel they’re better than others tinkerers,

      there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Slackware is the oldest distribution which is still active. I remember Yggdrasil came before it, and I’m looking it up, I see that Slackware was based on the earlier SLS.