what was the very first Linux distro 3287

I first installed Linux at around kernel 0.12; back then there were no distributions as such (in fact, there weren't even basics like login) and you built your system pretty much from scratch on top of the boot and root floppies - typically GCC and then most people added Poe-IGL to add init-getty-login to the system, and started accumulating other useful bits of software.

The first attempt to package Linux that I recall was the "MCC Interim" package from Manchester - which used to come with enough to rebuild itself (iirc) but didn't include big applications packages -- the theory presumably being that by keeping it simple and providing just the essentials anyone who wanted to go further could build anything else that might've been ported to Linux.

My home systems were never really any one distribution. New machines would get a minimal RPM-based install of whatever recent-ish distribution was to hand, but most things tended to get copied across from the previous machine and-or built from source (often with the Intel compiler).

I did a Linuxectomy at home a few months ago, after something like 14 years (I still have a Blackdog, but I have no Linux workstations or servers at home now).

pete -- "There's no room for engimas in built-up areas." - N Blackwell