The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/26/2015 10:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:35:33PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:

>>     People have mentioned having CDs and floppies, but no links so far,
>>     so...
>
> And I meant to mention in my last mail that I THINK (not direct
> knowledge) that SLS (Soft Landing Systems) may have been the first to
> ship a complete integrated system, though I think it may have been on
> a huge pile of floppies instead of a CDROM.
Depends on your definition of "complete integrated system".

Of those Linux "distros" I've used, SLS was the first, I'd nowadays call 
a "distro". It was an ever growing "pile of floppies" :)

However, I recall having played with a "4 floppy" Linux, which to my 
recollection came from Linus, but now that somebody else in this thread 
mentioned HJLu, I believe was his works - But this wasn't a "distro" in 
today's meaning.

Yggdrasil, Walnut Creek, Slackware, ... RH, Debian ... SuSE all came 
years later.

Ralf