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Wanted: the First GNU/Linux Distro for the Cloud

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. The last of these was created as a reaction to an even earlier distro, SLS, as Debian's creator Ian Murdock (the “Ian” in “Debian” - Deb is his wife) told me a few years ago.

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Comments (3)

gus3 ·
In this sense, I guess you could say Slackware and Debian are siblings, or at least half-siblings.
jdixon ·
> I guess you could say Slackware and Debian are siblings, or at least half-siblings.

And, as with most siblings, there is a degree of sibling rivalry. :)
gus3 ·
Is not!

(Is too!)

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