Number 4 should be Gentoo. They say it’s too complicated but somehow that’s not a problem for Slackware. Lame.
I remember picking up a Slackware 1.0 CD at a computer show. Linux has been my one and only OS from then on.
Gentoo is not complicated just time consuming.
So you tab over to a TV show, or hug your dog, or make a sandwich.
You kids and your instant gratification. Back in the Slackware 1.0 days you had to download packages over a 28.8kbps PPP connection with 300ms plus latency. And that was fast as hell compared to the 2400 bps xmodem BBS days.
Didn’t say it was time consuming like it was bad. Its just what happens when you have to compile most programs in the OS. Just listing tradeoffs dude.
Also wasn’t the whole point of progress to make things better overall than to laude over people on how you had it worse?
Gentoo is younger than the distros mentioned, and is not in the same league in terms of influence.
If I read the “Red Hat Linux” part, I’m not sure if they are talking about an actual “Red Hat” distribution or the Red Hat enterprise. I would say the latter.
only subscribed users?
The entire article loaded fine for me so I didn’t notice, but try this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220509205317/https://linuxiac.com/major-distributions-in-history-of-linux/
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