From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   rbowman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Heh heh. My first GUI Red Hat install was a Red Hat Linux 6 disk   
   in a pocket in a book about Linux.   
      
   > 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#Debia   
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