On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Karl Schmidt wrote:

> I'm also interested if you might know what the history of debian is - is 
>   it one of the first disrtos? What were the first few distros?

If I'm not mistaken, Slackware was the first "commercial" distribution. It was 
the first distribution I ever downloaded to a couple dozen floppies in the 
early '90s.

I'm guessing you could Google for Linux history and find the info you're 
after.

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