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I was curious about something. I was watching this video on Linux distros from late 2018 and he showed an image of the Linux Timeline from here. However, the version he showed has several icons not currently found in the version here on GitHub, such as for Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Gentoo, Arch, and more. Is this a custom version he made or was this a previous feature set no longer offered? It makes sense to include these icons, as it is what people most relate to those distros.

If some of the icons for other highly popular distros could be added, I think it would really add to the graphical appeal of the Timeline!

home of deepin moved apparently from http://linux.deepin.org to http://www.deepin.org/ and that page redirects to https://www.deepin.org/en/

URL for Manjaro links to the wrong website the correct URL for Manjaro is https://manjaro.github.io/

• Name: Voidlinux / Void
• Fake-URL: voidlinux.eu
• Real-URL: voidlinux.org

Please refer to this article for more information: https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/02/voidlinux-eu-gone.html

One Link needs to be changed

Please change this ftp://linorg.usp.br/sage/livecd/old/sagelive-readme.txt
To this http://linorg.usp.br/sage/livecd/old/sagelive-readme.txt

According to this page Void Linux started in 2008, not in the middle of 2015 as the timeline states at the moment. Unless there is some information I do not know of, the timeline's starting date is incorrect. Please change the starting year to 2008.

SymphonyOS is inactive according to DistroWatch;
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=symphony

While GuixSD now shares no components with NixOS, it was originally based on it in that it was inspired by it, created by a former NixOS developer, and even used the Nix daemon for queuing builds, and to this day uses a compatible format for derivations (artifacts in its build process). NixOS and GuixSD also form the closest thing there is to a family for functional package management-based GNU+Linux distros.

They certainly have more in common now than SUSE and Slackware, and arguably have a comparably connected history.

What do you think?

I'm planning to add distributions (if any missing) from here.

There should be non-arbitrary rule in place of what distribution does qualify for inclusion and what does not and should be removed.

For example distribution only qualifies if:

• 2 years since start to end date you suggested
• forks require 2 years since parent distro start to own end date, in this case parent also qualifies

since version 6.0.0 (2019-02-02) SystemRescueCD is no longer based on Gentoo but on ArchLinux, see http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Changes-x86/

__stop_Descent|OS, __fadeout_Slack/390, etc. are not valid SVG/XML ID's. See a validator output.

Allowed characters.

Crunchbang should be directly under debian and not under ubuntu

Cheers and thanks for the great job!

Adding a distro

• Distro name: TinyCore Linux

• Base distro: None

• Start date: January 5, 2009

• URL: http://tinycorelinux.net/

• (optional) Description:
  see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux
  In the meantime there are a variants which can also use Debian packages (from Debian or Ubuntu repositories).
  Robert Shingledecker is a former developer of Damn Small Linu, but TinyCore is not based on DSL. See also: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090323#feature

The "Red Hat -> Red Hat Enterprise" straight line is totally wrong.
Fedora is the continuation of Red Hat Linux.
And Red Hat Enterprise is a branch of them.

• Name: CAELinux

• Base: Xubuntu

• Start date: 2005

• (eventual) Name changes with date: none

• URL: https://caelinux.com/CMS3/

• (optional) Color in hex:

• (optional) Description and history: A linux distro, like kali linux but with computer assisted engineering software preinstalled, instead of penetration testing software.

• Name: Hyperbola

• Base: Arch

• Start date: April 15 2017

• (eventual) Name changes with date: none

• URL: https://www.hyperbola.info/

• (optional) Color in hex:

• (optional) Description and history: An arch based distro with patches from Debian and no proprietary software.

Adding a distro

• Distro name: Swift Linux

• Base distro: Arch Linux

• Start date: 01 July 2006 - 01:01 (first public iso)

• URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20061108011223/http://shiftlinux.net:80/

• (optional) Color in hex: 006e92

• (optional) Description: Neowin's Shift Linux is designed to give the user an experience of being part of the Neowin community as well as having a simple, easy-to-use Live CD that can be installed to your hard drive, if you enjoy the way our distribution works. Shift is a free, GPL-based Linux distribution that can be freely distributed or modified. There are no restrictions with Shift.

• Stop date: 23 December 2007

• Statement URL (if any): The page went down and never go up again.

I am not sure what it means that endless OS is on the todo list of DISTRIBUTIONS.md, but maybe the information I am providing here makes the entry in the todo part obsolete :-)

Adding a distribution

• Name: endless OS

• Base: Debian (but heavily customized, see contributions on their support pages and/or forum).

• Start date: 18. July 2014 (first public release 2.1.0, see also the release history in their forum)

• URL: https://endlessos.com/ and https://github.com/endlessm

• (optional) Description and history: talk about the project, for adding to distributions.md

Endless OS is not a typical Linux Distribution. It has a read only root file system, which is managed by OSTree. EndlessOS uses flatpak as packet management system.
(extracted from Sec. "Endless OS" of the developer information)

Discontinuing a distro

• Distro name: RemixOS

• Stop date: July 17, 2017

• Statement URL (if any):
  http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/remix-android-desktop-os-discontinued
  https://www.facebook.com/remixglobal/posts/1909741975917394
  http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/07/17/jide-technology-shifting-away-consumer-market-remix-os-discontinued/

Adding a distribution

• Name: Q4OS

• Base: Debian

• Start date: July 2014

• URL: https://q4os.org/

• Description and history: Fork of Debian with the trinity desktop environment for low power systems and people who like old-school kde/windows. It has been around since 2014 and is currently 39th on distrowatch (https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=q4os). Can't find much more info on it aside from linux youtuber reviews.

Latest release is 16.12... Curious what the plans are for more recent releases? Looked like monthly releases were the plan, at least at first; could probably tag commits from previous months and generate releases for each? I'd offer to do so myself, but no repo access. 😀

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Adding a distro

• Distro name:
  dCore

• Base distro:
  TinyCore

• Start date:
  First announcement: October 2012 (I was not able to locate an apropriate posting in the forum)
  alpha release: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15612.html
  first release candidate: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15799.html
  first stable release: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17870.0.html

• URL:
  http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/dcore:welcome

• (optional) Description:
  dCore uses the same concept as Tiny Core, i.e. it runs completely from RAM, but dCore can utilize Debian/Ubuntu packages (.deb) and dCore can build its own extension format from their *.deb files.

So it is heavily influenced by Debian/Ubuntu. There are several flavours of dCore, which are based on the corresponding Debian/Ubuntu releases, for x86, see http://tinycorelinux.net/dCore/x86/release/ for an overview of architectures see: http://tinycorelinux.net/dCore/

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• Distro name: chameleonOs

• Stop date: 2011

• Statement URL (if any): https://chameleonos.wordpress.com/newsblog/

Sorry about second issue

• Name: Minitena

• Base: Independent

• Start date: 2018/09/14

• URL: https://minitena.github.io/

• Color in hex: #990000

• Description and history: Minitena is a minimal and optimized general purpose Linux distribution that was made from scratch. It can run on x86_64, i586, aarch64, armv7l CPUs. Minitena aimed to be simple, flexible and easy for experienced Linux users. The code was written with KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle. That allows making the code readable and easy to maintain. The package manager of Minitena is pacman because it’s simple. Minitena uses own framework to build itself which called wok. Minitena is in endless development!

• Distro name: Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre

http://www.dragora.org/

You have us down as dead! Please check our timeline and or freenode dragora. You will see we're very much alive and kicking .... Just slow moving :-) The completely new release D3 is due out ASAP.

http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/timeline
irc://freenode/dragora

cheers Kelsoo

Found a problem in the diagram.

Caldera never really had a RedHat-based distro. They were the first company to commercially distribute RedHat in a box set with some proprietary software. The entire suite was titled Caldera Network Desktop, but it wasn’t actually a Linux distro. The installation guide in the box was RedHat-branded and the distro CD was a barely massaged RedHat, essentially raw RedHat with some strategically placed Caldera logos.

I think that got one or two releases, and after that they dropped RedHat and built their own custom distro, OpenLinux, based on LST. OpenLinux lasted all the way through the death of the company.

Basically, I’d scrap the connection to RedHat and only associate OpenLinux with LST.

The URL for Keysoft has been changed.
New URL is: http://keysoft.zitrotec.de

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Adding a distribution

• Name: Red Star OS

• Base: Fedora

• Start date: 2008

• (eventual) Name changes with date:

• URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

• (optional) Color in hex: f42427

• (optional) Description and history: North Koreas linux distrbution.

Hi,
I noticed that several distributions in the gldt.csv file have #N or // N instead of N in the first column and because of this they don't show up in the timeline. Is there a reason for this or was this done by accident?

Lines affected by this are:

• for // N
  112 Mystras OS
  113 Xinutop
  145 INX
  171 NodeZero
  173 Blackbuntu
  175 iQunix OS
  177 icefeast
  178 Sn0wL1nuX
  179 Bigtux
  180 Jeoss
  181 Redo
  183 Freezy
  185 Arduloko OS
  187 Hybride
  189 jfLinux
  190 MLIPenguin-OS
  191 AtlasX
  255 Cultix
  256 SprezzOS

• for #N
  58 Joatha
  142 Maryan
  158 Zenix OS
  162 Dax OS
  174 P@xtreme
  191 Airinux
  193 Vulnix
  236 Sword OS
  244 Conducit
  250 srvRX live
  335 Anthon
  475 AnikOS
  476 OccupyOS
  484 FireFly
  491 LDR
  497 Nosonja
  558 AtheOS
  559 Syllable
  572 Saluki
  627 Ophone

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• Name:

• Base:

• Start date:

• (eventual) Name changes with date:

• URL:

• (optional) Color in hex:

• (optional) Description and history: talk about the project, for adding to distributions.md

Discontinuing a distribution

• Name: Antergos

• Stop date: 21/05/2019

• Statement URL (if any): https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/

See here: http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2001-September/010620.html

Per Liden who made the distro gives thanks to Gerard Beekmans ... For creating the "LinuxFromScratch" how-to

Earliest “SUSE Linux distributions” were originally ONLY a German translation of Slackware.

For building its very own distribution of Linux, SUSE used the Jurix distribution as a fresh start point. And heavily influenced by Red Hat Linux.

For more info:

• https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:S.u.S.E._Linux_4.2
• http://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distributions/jurix/docs/history.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurix
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuSE_Linux#Origins

[...]
Next release will be out in September!
Hopefully future release will not be so distant, let's say not more than 3 months each.
If you have some request or tips it's time now :)
[...]
Originally posted by @FabioLolix in #28 (comment)

Last release is 17.10, that is 15 month ago, what about a new one?

I was looking through https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

and i see few Operating systems which are made using openembedded, e.g. angstrom, webos, AsteroidOS, yocto project etc. I think like the roots ( debian Redhat arch android ) this could become a good root for embedded linux distributions.

• Name: januslinux

• Base: Independent

• Start date: 26th May 2017

• URL: https://januslinux.github.io

• Color in hex: #ff00bf

• Description and history: Fast and mini Linux distribution uses musl libc and busybox userland tools

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Adding a distribution

• Name: Endeavour OS

• Base: Arch

• Start date: 15.07.2019 (i think)

• (eventual) Name changes with date:

• URL: https://endeavouros.com/

• (optional) Color in hex: #7f3fbf

• (optional) Description and history: talk about the project, for adding to distributions.md
  easy installable arch (like antergos, now discontinued) for distrohoppers, comes with xfce but might get a net installer like antergos where you can choose your desktopn environment. some developers went from antergos directly to endeavour
  (https://itsfoss.com/endeavouros/)

Discontinuing a distribution

• Name: Antergos

• Stop date:21.05.2019 (i think)

• Statement URL (if any):https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/

https://lwn.net/Articles/786422/

we will deploy CentOS 8 in our scientific computing
environments rather than develop Scientific Linux 8.

http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=3852

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux#Support
• 2024-06-30

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• Distro name:
  aptosid

• Stop date:
  last Edition 5. May 2013
  Status on distrowatch: inactive
  not really much activity on their forum, see:
  http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2910

• Statement URL (if any):

• Distro name: Minimal Linux Live

• Base distro: None (compiled entirely from vanilla sources)

• Start date: 28-Jul-2014

• URL: http://minimal.linux-bg.org

• (optional) Color in hex: 0x6633FF

• (optional) Description: Minimal Linux Live is a tiny Linux distribution which is designed to be built from scratch using a collection of automated shell scripts. Minimal Linux Live offers a core environment with just the Linux kernel, GNU C library and BusyBox userland utilities. See also http://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal.

Ciao Fabio @FabioLolix ,
current Rockstor distro start date is wrong, it should be at least 20 Nov 2013 (first Github Rockstor release) if not earlier: @schakrava - Rockstor mantainer 🎉 - can help us with this

Waiting to PR till further infos

Mirko

https://timeline.knightlab.com/

The backend is a just google doc - an initial sync and yearly update may suffice.

That's why I'm announcing today that Edubuntu will NOT be releasing a
16.04 LTS version. Instead, Jonathan and I will focus on ongoing support
of Edubuntu 14.04 LTS until it goes EOL in April 2019.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-March/039281.html

I think it would be a good idea to make a version without EOL distros in it.

There are a gigantic amount of distros on this list. Having every distro that ever existed on the list is useful for someone looking for a specific distro, or for anyone looking to see how many spin-offs of a distro were ever created, so the current version is good to have.

However, for people looking for an overview of current Linux distros and their families, having EOL distros on the list is just clutter. The list is absolutely gigantic right now. Simplifying the image to only include supported distros would be very nice.

I think this is only worth doing if it can be automated for each build. I would not expect you guys to maintain 2 branches, one with EOL distros removed, one not.

Thanks for considering.

• Distro name: Splack Linux

• Base distro: Slackware Linux

• Start date: 2001-Jul-14

• URL: https://github.com/fede2cr/splack_linux

• (optional) Description: Based on Slackware for Sparc processors

• Stop date: 2006-Aug-05
  Mirror archive: https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/splack/

• Distro name: Backslash Linux

• Base Ubuntu (see release)

• Start date: 2 November 2016

• URL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackSlash_Linux

• (optional) Description: see all information in the wiki page

All its update are on this wiki page.

Foundation dates should be revised, at least for the first distributions.
And establish a common base, based on one of these criterion:

• Project/company foundation.
• Starting to work in the distribution.
• First public(alpha/beta) distribution.
• First stable distribution.

Red Hat and Debian are clear examples of wrong dates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux#Version_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Release_table

• Name: piCorePlayer

• URL: moved from: https://site.google.com/site/picoreplayer/home
  to: https://www.picoreplayer.org

regards, Bernhard

Adding a distribution

• Name:Artix Linux

• Base:Arch Linux

• Start date:2017-07-27

• URL:https://artixlinux.org/

• Color in hex:#66CCFF

• Description: see all information in the home page

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Distro name*: Keysoft

Start date*: 27.12.2014

Stop date:

URL*: https://keysoft-technology-productions.com

*Must be filled out.

Hi there

KaOS is independent

https://kaosx.us/
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kaos

Its listed as Arch based, most likely since it use Pacman.