Softlanding Linux
(Within 12 hours of publishing this wiki version, I received the following e-mail from the author of the CDServer-HOWTO)
"I ran across your "English-language GNU/Linux distributions on CD-ROM" and happened to be reading your personal opinions. This had me reminiscing about my first experience with Linux. Took me a while to remember the name of it, Softlanding Linux System (SLS) ... I did remember the kernel version was 0.97. I wondered what had happened to that distribution (that I incidentally had downloaded onto floppies in early '93).
"All the while, I thought I may have had a submission for your Hall of Remembrance . I entered "softlanding" into Google and found that the Softlanding distribution was actually an early version of what SUSE was based on! Even more to my surprise, I learned that Slackware was also initially based on SLS.
"All the while, I thought I may have had a submission for your Hall of Remembrance . I entered "softlanding" into Google and found that the Softlanding distribution was actually an early version of what SUSE was based on! Even more to my surprise, I learned that Slackware was also initially based on SLS.
"Anyway, thanks for the great reading and the history lesson :-).
"Here's a couple of the articles I had found... probably not pertinent to your distributions document, but fun to read none-the-less.
http://www.developer.ibm.com/library/articles/schenk2b.html
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue9/lu9-All_you_need_to_know_about-The_early_history_of_Linux_part_2.pdf
"Best regards,
"Randy Tata
Author: CDServer-HOWTO"