In an absolute sense, there were quite a few Linux distros around before Slackware. MCC Interim Linux, TAMU, and Yggdrasil all predate it, as does SLS (obviously, since Pat derived Slackware from SLS).
In the sense of "oldest surviving distribution", Slackware is not the "second oldest". It is the oldest.
In the mid-1990's, wasn't Walnut Creek CDROM originally a Valley-local home-based business of a husband and wife duo?
I remember getting the Slackware distro on ~9 green silkscreened CD's from Central Computer in Santa Clara around the front area where the tree-genocidal non-Felix Dennis tome of Computer Shopper was piled higher and deeper.
PS: It's interesting iXsystems (FreeNAS sponsors, FreeBSD sponsors, BSD hardware VAR) ended up with WU CDROM.
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Sorry to nitpick, but it's not, by any metric.
In an absolute sense, there were quite a few Linux distros around before Slackware. MCC Interim Linux, TAMU, and Yggdrasil all predate it, as does SLS (obviously, since Pat derived Slackware from SLS).
In the sense of "oldest surviving distribution", Slackware is not the "second oldest". It is the oldest.
I remember getting the Slackware distro on ~9 green silkscreened CD's from Central Computer in Santa Clara around the front area where the tree-genocidal non-Felix Dennis tome of Computer Shopper was piled higher and deeper.
PS: It's interesting iXsystems (FreeNAS sponsors, FreeBSD sponsors, BSD hardware VAR) ended up with WU CDROM.