aLinux 12.9 – A Blast From the Past

“I even made a respin of Peanut Linux for use in the company I
was working with to be used as promotion materials (rebranded of
course to show our company logo as wallpaper). The company I was
working for had short courses and I was tasked to develop a module
to teach linux basics to students (linux during that time was only
known to systems administrators and practically the Philippines
during that time was largely – and still is – a
Microsoft country). The teaching module I made for the short course
was based on, as you may have guessed it, Peanut Linux. Jay even
helped me out with the respin.

“Anyways, back to the present, a few weeks ago, I talked to Jay
(we remained friends during the years), and asked him if he can
package up the unreleased version of aLinux for me to give a short
review. aLinux was considered a dead distro; practically all of us
from the Peanut Linux community moved on – some even joined
the PCLinuxOS community, others created their own Linux
distribution from scratch, a person I know moved to BSD (he was one
of those responsible for testing apt4rpm on aLinux 12.1/.2, along
with Craig and I). Jay always preferred to work alone – we
can only suggest, it was his baby.

“And so on February 22, 2010. aLinux 12.9 stable was released to
the public on ibiblio, after practically 3 years of waiting.”

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