[hllug] Re: Linux Distro Timeline
- From: Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:32:24 -0500
Don:
Donguitar wrote:
> Assuming the GNU/Linux penguin, at extreme left, represents the original
> Linux kernel in 1991.
The kernel is really a small part of what the GNU/Linux represents. The GNU
portion is much larger than the kernel itself.
GNU/Linux = GNU + the kernel.
> ... Do you see my point?
Yes, I see your point, the diagram is a little mis-leading as you indicated
and for on other reason as well.
GNU development actual began in 1984, a few years before Linus announced
the Linux kernel in 1991.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
The "GNU/Linux Penguin" at the left does represent the beginning of the
"dynamic Duo" (GNU & Linux) and is the source of the future distro's that
radiate from there forward in time.
The source code for every package of the GNU and the kernel itself reside
with the maintainers. The major "line" distro's will take the source from
the maintainers and do the three (3) step (Configure, make and create
packages: tar, rpm, deb, ...) in accordance to their specification and
kernel options. So, these distro's uses the same source code stream which
is represented by GNU/Linux.
The timeline revealed at least two (2) things that I did not know. I was
unaware that SUSE was forked from Slackware and that Yoper was not a fork
from Red Hat/Fedora.
-Lee
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