jurix

Developer	Florian La Roche
OS family	Linux ( Unix-like )
Working state	Discontinued
Initial release	1993 ; 31 years ago  ( 1993 )
Final release	with kernel 2.0.36 / November 17, 1998 ; 25 years ago  ( 1998-11-17 )
License	GNU GPL
Official website	linux .mathematik .tu-darmstadt .de /pub /linux /distributions /jurix /docs

Jurix was an early Linux distribution created by Florian La Roche, a former employee of the legal department at Saarland University . The distribution was maintained between 1993 and 1999 ^[1] and hosted on the now-defunct "jurix.jura.uni-sb.de" and "susix.jura.uni-sb.de" domains.

In 1996, jurix superseded Slackware as a base for SuSE Linux . ^[2]

The name "jurix" was borrowed from the department's first HTTP server , named by Alexander Sigel. ^[3] It is not known whether the name was taken from the nearby Dutch law and IT organisation JURIX , or simply a portmanteau of " Jura " (meaning "law" in German) and " Unix ".

A readme from 1999 touts the following software, among others: ^[4]

• modularized kernel 2.0.37 and 2.2.10
• libc 5.4.46
• egcs 1.1.2
• ncurses 4.2-980822
• shadow passwords
• XFree86 3.3.3.1
• KDE 1.1.1

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External links [ edit ]

• Official website