I don't know when any of the other distributions started but Debian is having a 15th birthday party in many locations this month.
Debian turns 15 On 16 August 1993 Ian Murdock [1]announced a new Linux distribution named "Debian". 15 years later the project started by him is the biggest Linux distribution worldwide, offering more than 20 000 software packages maintained by over 1'000 volunteers, supporting more hardware architectures than any other Linux distribution, and providing a base for more than twenty active derivatives, like [2]Knoppix, [3]Skolelinux or [4]Ubuntu. 1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6 2: http://www.knoppix.net 3: http://www.skolelinux.org 4: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Now if anyone has some dates of when they were started for Slackware, SuSE, or RedHat we can know which is the oldest. -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
