jurix

Jurix was an early, mainly built on floppy Linux distribution that is no longer being developed today. It was founded by Florian La Roche from the legal department of the University of Saarbrücken and cared for and has a copyright notice at least for the span of 1994 to 1996 provided. At the end of this time were the fourth- level domains " jurix " and " susix " in the hierarchy " jura.uni - sb.de " used for communication and the first publication of the packed results.

The origin of the name jurix not go to La Roche, but to Alexander Sigel, an employee of the same university, back. This named in 1994 the first Internet server for the department to " jurix " - this was already running under Linux. There is no evidence whether this decision is to bring something to do with the not so far located Dutch educational institution for Law and Information Technology with names jurix connected or it is a simple assembly of the terms " law " and " Unix" / "Linux " is. Is ultimately proves that La Roche has conferred official task itself in 1995 to supervise this web platform administratively.

A discussion of the history of Linux contained the words:

" Fabian ( in fact Meant: Florian La Roche) had been added anonymously in the Debian project, but left due to the fighting. The initial version of jurix were tarballs. "

" Fabian (meaning: Florian La Roche) was previously involved in the Debian project, but it left because of local disputes. The original form of distribution of tar jurix were packed with the tool files. "

The last known well as archived version of the distribution was at the core of these applications:

  • Linux kernel 1.3.91
  • Libc 5.2.18
  • Gcc 2.7.2
  • ncurses 1.9.9e
  • XFree86 3.1.2 -S
  • Tcl 7.5b3
  • Tk 4.1b3

The distribution had a few more features, including in particular was an installation program, which was also able to perform scripted installations and as a specific set of software on the same machine made ​​relatively reproducible. Standards such as BOOTP or NFS supported. As the central file system for use ext2 was integrated by default in the distribution.

This overall package later formed the starting point for the initial version of the actual SuSE Linux distribution and its successors. In the course of development of the caregivers of jurix the company SuSE joined also and was there for eg the installer, and written by him configuration tool YaST responsible.

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