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Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

According to this, the first was Boot-Root from Torvalds himself in 1991. The oldest that are still around are Slackware (July 1993) and Debian (Aug 1993).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if someone could still install boot root? I'm not a techy person, but I'd watch the hell out of that YouTube video!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sadly, I did not find Boot-Root 1991 but found these:

https://archiveos.org/tamu/

https://archiveos.org/sls/

https://archiveos.org/linux-from-nascent/

https://archiveos.org/lst/

And boot-root 2002:

https://archiveos.org/tomsrtbt/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Dang, that would have been a cool one to see!

I'd love to see what those looked like back in the day. I love computer history, even if I don't fully understand it. Haha