[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> First a bit of background. The local technical college in the town
> where I live in Germany is currently organising its first
> installation party. I asked them what distributions would be
> demonstrated, pointing out that I am RedHat user of full six months
> standing. I was told that Redhat was a hybrid ("ein Z ing" =
> rather less polite than hybrid when expressed in German) between
> SusE and Debian and that nobody used it here.
> As I said above I'm new and came to Linux the same way that many
> casual users did ie mag. CD, Oh, I'll try that and finally got stuck
> with one version. That version for me was 4.2 RH. I have no
> experience of any other distrib
> So, is it? And if yes, in what sense. I haste to add that I suspect
> my opposite number had little idea of what he was talking about. But
> that never stopped a German ; )
A quick check of articles available on the net indicates that SuSE may predate
Red Hat by a few months; the SuSE web site indicates that they started
sometime in 1993. An article by Larry Ayers for Linux Journal reports that
SuSE was based on Slackware originally, with some direct assistance by Pat
Volkerding at first. At some later point SuSE added RPM support to their
distribution.
Red Hat had their preview release in 1994, so the time difference was minimal.
Slackware may have had some influence on Red Hat's early releases, but it
would appear to have been minimal at best.
Ian Murdock's position paper on the creation of Debian was written in January
1994. It was quite some time after that before the first actual release.
Debian played no role I can think of in the development of Red Hat.
In general, to the best of my knowledge, and a quick recheck of net sources,
your information source is full of something other than accurate data.
Best
rickf
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