Un cordiale e "sconnsolato" saluto a tutti i partecipanti alla lista ...
Ebbene si, anche la Debian, la nostra amatissima Debian e' derivata da
un'altra ditribuzione di Linux, a quei tempi "famosa": la SLS (Softlanding
Linux System) sviluppata da Peter MacDonald, non osavo crederci ... ma
purtroppo e' proprio cosi, infatti Ian Murdok, agli albori di Debian
scriveva:
From: Ian A Murdock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: August 16, 1993 6:09:59 PST
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: New release under development; suggestions requested
Fellow Linuxers,
This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new
Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release. This is
a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other
words, I didn't simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new
release. I was inspired to put together this release after running
SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and after
much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start
from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I'm
still looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent
sources for everything), and I'd like to get some feedback before I
add the "fancy" stuff.
(Full post available here.)
When I posted this message a decade ago, Linux was in use by maybe
a few tens of thousands of people around the world, and most of
those people were either running their own homebrew Linux system or
Peter MacDonald's SLS, the Softlanding Linux System. Red Hat
Software was but a twinkle in Marc Ewing's eye.
I had been using Linux for several months, since January of 1993.
Not long after, I was hooked. Like most other early Linux
enthusiasts, what hooked me was not Linux itself, but rather the
community that had formed around it.
It's difficult to remember, because open source and open
development projects are commonplace now, but in 1993, what I saw
happening seemed completely illogical. How could people without any
master plan, from different parts of the world, speaking different
languages and not getting paid, come together to build something as
complex as an operating system? The fascinating thing was that
it worked.
[...]
A volte la verita' fa ... male .... :-)
Au Revoir
Hugh Hartmann
--
... Linux, Windows Xp ed MS-DOS
(anche conosciuti come il Bello, il Brutto ed il Cattivo).
-- Matt Welsh
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