[Gllug] What's so good about Debian?

[Tethys]

Ian Norton writes:

>Debian is 'i think' the oldest of the linux distros

Then you think wrong :-) MCC Interim was the first Linux distribution,
closely followed by SLS. I think you're probably safe to claim that
Debian is the oldest surviving distribution, though[1].

Before MCC, there weren't distributions to speak of. Linux came on a
pair of boot/root floppies either direct from Linus or later from H.J.
Lu.

Tet

[1] Although you could arguably claim that Slackware is a direct
    descendent of SLS, so that could potentially claim the honour.

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