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Frak
July 12th, 2007, 11:03 PM
I want to know if anybody can name the oldest still living distro's in order from Oldest to Youngest.
Now because everyone knows this, I'm Excluding Slackware from the list.

Exclusion - Slackware
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

They must still be alive, and must have always been worked on, not stopped for a couple of years and started again.
Mergers do not count. i.e. Linux-FT Merging with Caldera Linux, the final distro was called Caldera Project, therefore Linux-FT doesn't count.

Good Luck:guitar:

Oh and I'm going to keep this going for a certain amount of time, I want to see everybody's answers, therefore, I am not revealing the answer (with proof) until page 2 or 3.

tbroderick
July 12th, 2007, 11:18 PM
Slackware
Debian
Suse
Red Hat
PLD
Turbolinux

smoker
July 12th, 2007, 11:38 PM
mcc interim
sls
tamu
yggdrasil
debian

maybe not in correct order :-)

jrusso2
July 13th, 2007, 12:07 AM
mcc interim
sls
tamu
yggdrasil
debian

maybe not in correct order :-)

I think he said must still be alive

FuturePilot
July 13th, 2007, 12:18 AM
1. Debian
2. Red Hat
3. Gentoo
4. Yoper
5. Puppy

jrusso2
July 13th, 2007, 12:23 AM
1. Suse
2. Redhat
3. Debian
4. Mandriva/Mandrake
5. unsure

fuscia
July 13th, 2007, 12:34 AM
crux?

smoker
July 14th, 2007, 12:16 AM
I think he said must still be alive

i should really pay more attention to post, lol,

another go:

debian
redhat
gentoo
LFS
puppy

:-)

bread eyes
July 14th, 2007, 12:21 AM
You guys are funny.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/LinuxDistroTimeline.png

smartboyathome
July 14th, 2007, 12:25 AM
1. Debian
2. Suse
3. Redhat
4. PLD
5. Turbolinux

edit: breadeyes, you may have posted the diagram I used, but I throroughly checked it and got the 5 oldest distros from it. :P

Frak
July 14th, 2007, 12:34 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LinuxDistroTimeline.png

Ans:
1.Debian
2. SUSE
3. Red Hat
4. PLD
5. Turbo

smartboyathome
July 14th, 2007, 12:35 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:LinuxDistroTimeline.png

Ans:
1.Debian
2. SUSE
3. Red Hat
4. PLD
5. Turbo

100% right. I guess I win then. good thing I used that diagram. :lolflag:

bread eyes
July 14th, 2007, 12:39 AM
1. Debian
2. Suse
3. Redhat
4. PLD
5. Turbolinux

edit: breadeyes, you may have posted the diagram I used, but I throroughly checked it and got the 5 oldest distros from it. :P

What I was trying to do is point out some of the ones that were really off.

~LoKe
July 14th, 2007, 12:46 AM
100% right. I guess I win then. good thing I used that diagram. :lolflag:

Tbroderick won.

smartboyathome
July 14th, 2007, 12:46 AM
What I was trying to do is point out some of the ones that were really off.

ok, I guess I didn't catch that (I am slow sometimes ;)).

smoker
July 14th, 2007, 12:54 AM
what was the prize?

free copy of linux?

:-) :-) :-)

Frak
July 14th, 2007, 12:56 AM
what was the prize?

free copy of linux?

:-) :-) :-)
You even win a bonus prize of LFS!
Just go to the link below.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

smoker
July 14th, 2007, 01:01 AM
You even win a bonus prize of LFS!
Just go to the link below.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

cheers :lolflag:

smartboyathome
July 14th, 2007, 01:08 AM
LFS = didn't work for me :(

bread eyes
July 14th, 2007, 01:37 AM
LFS = didn't work for me :(

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