“Like most Americans, I was issued a set of blinders and a
certificate of universal supremacy at birth. However, few things
expose this cultural tunnel vision as well as a world-wide
phenomenon such as the Open Source movement and the associated
variety of Linux distributions targeted towards specific markets or
parts of the world.“I was previously familiar with Turbolinux as one of the big
distributions in the original Linux explosion of the late 1990s,
and still have boxes of some of their older releases for x86 and
PPC platforms in the attic. Not having seen them for a long time on
the shelves at the local CompUSA or in print advertising in the
dead-tree Linux magazines that I read, I had assumed that they had
joined other early Linux distributions such as Yggdrasil, MCC,
TAMU, and SLS as footnotes in Linux history. I could hardly have
been more wrong…!”
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