Unlike today, even though number of software wad huge, the development of individual softwares progressed in a slow pace.
I started with Mandriva in late 2009 and early 2010. It was developed in France.
It had a small computer called "Globe Trotter". The idea was to have a portable (mini computer in todays parlance) computer which one can carry around.
Then, I wished I could possess such a one.
Then came a legal dispute around copyright claims.
It killed the mini computer project in it's infancy.
Name was changed to Mandrake but it did not solve the financial problems of the computer company.
ROSA company probably bought Mandrake and renamed it as ROSA.
It became OpenMandriva and later SAM and Samity.
SAM Linux was my early entry.
I had SAM CD, till lately.
On the way it changed to Samity.
Mageia
Unity
Samity
PCLinux
Tiny Me
Demo Linux
ALT
Redhat
ROSA ultimately became Redhat and along the way I started hating Redhat due to many reasons.
So I never took heart to ALT Linux and Russian Linux Distributions in general and ended up as an ardent supporter of Debian Linux.
Russian got stuck in Redhat and ALT Linux and here I am finishing a book covering my own Linux History and Linux in general.
I had a marathon test of Linux Derivatives including Gnoppix that comes from Singapore.
But the best Linux Distributions come from Germany.
The best Linux computers also come from Germany.
1. Cachy OS based on ARCH Linux
2. Netrunner
3. Neptune are a few of them.
4. BlueStar Linux
5. SuSe
6. Garuda Linux
France produced a good distribution called Emmabantus but its Version 6 is lagging behind in Kernel development as compared to Trixie and Forky of Debian.
Except for America no other country produce an array of Linux Distributions.
Reborn OS that comes grom Amerca is pretty good and easy to install.
Last distribution, I installed in my NUC was Reborn Linux and it is very close to Buddhist Concept of Rebirth.
Gentoo based Bodhi Linux and Moksha Linux are still batting on but not popular.
1. Ubuntu I dissociated with long time ago.
2. SuSe was my favourite but gave up when it went commercial.
It had a Linux Studio where one can mix and match and make a ones own distribution. I am not sure Chrome Book, Chrome OS and Google cut Linux teeth from SuSe Linux Studio.
3. I had all the Redhat books until I found the Linux Bible.
Only Linux Distribution I hate is Redhat along with Fedora.
No more activity on Linux after this.
By the way, I discovered a way to install Linux on a Microsoft NTFS partition.
What a turn around!
