From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 27 Jan 2026 00:30:19 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
      
   > Admittedly, Linux seemed like a dying fad until Ubuntu released its   
   > first edition. Once that happened, every distribution improved   
   > significantly.   
      
   Give me a break. For whatever reason Shuttleworth decided to take the   
   windfall from the sale of his company to Verisgin to create a distro based   
   on Debian and started mailing out CDs faster than AOL.   
      
   Slackware, Debian, SUSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, and others. Mandrake had   
   already gotten a reputation for being easy to install for new users 6   
   years before Ubunutu. In fact they'd lost the trademark suit to Hearst a   
   couple of month's before the Ubunutu brainstorm session.   
      
   It's interesting Ubunut was and is based on Debian. Debian gores back to   
   '93. Stallman's Free Software Foundation sponsored Debian for one year   
   before the inclusion of optional 'non-free' software pissed off Stallman.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/   
   The_Open_Source_Definition#Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines   
      
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