Distro family tree?

dhave · 01-14-2005, 12:15 PM

Somewhere I've seek a Wiki entry or other webpage showing the relationship of many of the Linux distros, i.e., which ones have forked off from which ones, which ones are based on another, etc. I can't find the link, though. Does anyone know where I can locate this info? Thanks.

XavierP · 01-14-2005, 12:36 PM

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...bution_listing may be what you are looking for.

dhave · 01-14-2005, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by XavierP
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...bution_listing may be what you are looking for.

Thanks for that link. I think it will eventually become what I'm looking for.

Meanwhile, I turned up the site I had visited before:

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=independence

I had trouble finding this site by the usual search techniques. Perhaps the page's author meant "interdependence" or "dependence", or perhaps he's using a pun that I've missed. Still, it's a very informative site, and could easily be used to help flesh out the family tree entry in the linuxquestions.org wiki.

allanf · 07-19-2009, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhave

Somewhere I've seek a Wiki entry or other webpage showing the relationship of many of the Linux distros, i.e., which ones have forked off from which ones, which ones are based on another, etc. I can't find the link, though. Does anyone know where I can locate this info? Thanks.

Download images of the Linux family tree from:
http://futurist.se/gldt/

As of the 19 Jul 2009 the latest image is found at:
http://futurist.se/gldt/gldt93.png

If you wish to get Unix et al:
http://www.levenez.com/unix/

If you wish to see Microsoft OS history:
http://www.levenez.com/windows/

See the "mother of all computer demos" (video from 9 Dec 1968):
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/....html#complete

GUI environments:
http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html

The first mouse:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...computer-mouse