I appreciate all the help I can get, so please send a mail if you have any useful info. Avoid comments here unless you really have to. Remember to supply links and dates. Thanks!
Some sources:
http://www.linux.org/dist/
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=independence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
http://lwn.net/Distributions/
Messy list of incompleteness:
Adamantix (former Trusted Debian) http://www.adamantix.org
AGNULA (DeMuDi, Debian based & ReHMuDi, Red Hat based)
Alzza Linux (?)
andLinux (originally Debian-based, currently Ubuntu-based)
Asianux (Asian, Red Hat based, formed june 2004 (?) by Red Flag, Miracle and Haansoft) http://www.asianux.com
ASP Linux (Russian, RPM-based) http://www.asplinux.ru
aXon Linux (?)
Bad Penguin http://www.badpenguin.org/badpenguin/index.html
Bastille Linux (mere security solution?)
BearOps Desktop Linux OS (dead 2001?) http://www.bearops.com/
CHAINSAWLINUX (Slackware based) http://www.chainsawlinux.com
CIS Linux (merged with ASP Linux?)
CLE (Chinese Linux Extension) (Red Hat based)
Debian JP (Japanese, Debian based) http://www.debian.or.jp
Definite Linux (British, started 2000?, Red Hat based?)
Demolinux (Debian based, live-CD) http://www.demolinux.org
Dualix http://planetmirror.com/pub/dualix/
easyLinux
ESware (formerly Red Hat based, since ‘99? Currently Debian based, since ‘01?) http://www.esware.com
Finnix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnix http://www.finnix.org/
GenieOS / Debian Pure
Gentus http://home.c2i.net/espensh/
Giotto http://old.quietsche-entchen.de/giotto/
Gnoppix http://www.gnoppix.org
gnUAMix (Short lived Spanish Debian based university project, 2003)
Haansoft (Korean, Asianux based) http://www.haansoftlinux.com
Hancom (1999?)
IcePack Linux (?)
Independence Linux (Red Hat based) http://independence.seul.org/
Kondara/MNU Linux (RPM-based, Japan)
KRUD Linux (?)
Linpus (Taiwan, Red Hat/Fedora based)
Linuxin (Debian based) http://linuxin.paislinux.net
LinuxPPC (for PPC)
MeNTOPPIX
Model K (Distro from which DSL was originally based?)
Nitix
OS2000
Paipix
Pie Box Enterprise Linux
QiLinux
RAYS LX (Chinese, Debian based) http://www.swhss.com.cn
Red Escolar (Mexican)
RTLinux (“Real Time” – used in some embedded devices)
Rxart (Debian based)
SantaFe Linux (?)
SOT Linux (Red Hat/Fedora based? Renamed Best Linux (when?), then back to SOT Linux (apr02?), then LBA Linux (mar04?)) (Project dead dec04/jan05)
Sun JDS (hard drive distro based on SUSE, Live-CD based on Morphix?)
Ultima Linux
VA Linux (Red Hat based)
WinSlack (?)
hi… i’d like to help… looking for source files =) will keep looking…
all i have to add would be linux for playstation 2, which is based on kondara linux, an old, japanese version of redhat =)
i’ll keep poking around…
Hi, Thanks for providing a very useful linux
distro timeline. I used a distribution called unifix for a coule of years, http://www.unifix.de/.
I think it was active from ~1995-2001. I don’t
know what it was derived from though. It’s claim
to fame seems to have been that it had been POSIX
certified. Mike
brant:
Linux for PS2 seems more or less dead (correct me if I’m wrong) even though Sony is still hosting the site. Not sure where to end the line for it. Any ideas?
Nice one.
Michael:
Thank you. Will add Unifix for the next version (appears it was an Linux-FT offspring) from mid ‘96 until ~december ‘01.
I didn’t see ClarkConnect on the list…
http://www.clarkconnect.com/
i send a mail via website to Kalango & BigLinux projects to send infos to you.
there are another good brazilian project called DreamLinux
good job
theurge:
Thanks. Will add.
Ieso Nagata:
Thanks, and thanks for the mail. I’ll see what I can find on those. Hopefully they’ll send some info to make my job easier.