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Glory days
First of its kind
By Evan Leibovitch
November 6, 2000
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Quite a few people I know -- myself included -- got their first Linux
experience from the Linux Bible, which hasn't been updated since the
mid-90s but still has a place on Yggdrasil's web site.
The thousand-plus-paged Bible is fairly primitive by today's standards;
it contains a compendium of reference man pages, tutorial HOWTOs and other
files from what is now known as the Linux Documentation Project. These days such stuff is common on
every Linux CD and is all over the web in multiple
languages. But in the early to mid-'90s, Internet access was not quite
so widespread and paper copies were the norm for many.
In my recollection, the Yggdrasil book was also the first to include a
CD of installable Linux. "It was horrible to install," my Starnix
partner Matthew Rice recalls, "but back then, it was all pretty
horrible." Thus, Yggdrasil was one of the first Linux distributions (dating back to
1992) and it was certainly the first that was widely available.
Then, for no apparent reason, the company dropped out of sight towards the
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recollection, the Yggdrasil book was also the first to include a
CD of installable Linux. "It was horrible to install," my Starnix
partner Matthew Rice recalls, "but back then, it was all pretty
horrible." Thus, Yggdrasil was one of the first Linux distributions (dating back to
1992) and it was certainly the first that was widely available.
Then, for no apparent reason, the company dropped out of sight towards the
end of the millennium, just when Linux vendors started getting hype and the bandwagon started to fill.
And now it's back. With a vengeance? We're not sure yet.
Adam Richter, head of the Silicon Valley-based company, says Yggdrasil's
new release of a DVD full of free software is the first of what could be a
number of new products. The Yggdrasil
Linux DVD Archives packs more than 8 gigabytes (about the same as a
dozen CDs' worth) of compressed source code onto a single disk,
about double what you get with the only previous DVD collection that I
know of from SuSE.
It uncompresses into 23GB of free software -- heck, even the list of
contents alone is more than 6MB. It's a collection of the FTP archives of
MetaLab and the GNU
project, excluding distributions and non-free software.
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