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Date	24 May 2016
Source	http://futurist.se/gldt/ (initially), https://github.com/konimex/linuxtimeline (continued), https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline (continued)
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GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline

An update

This place hasn’t seen any activity in over six years – except for the comments asking what is going on […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.10

Discontinued distros: Dreamlinux Continued: Damn Small Linux Added 10 distros (total 480): KaarPux, NixOS, OpenELEC, OpenNode, Santoku, Slack/390, Vulnix, Whonix […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.9

Discontinued distros: ASP, HostGIS, White Box Continued: Ubuntu Christian Edition Added 50 distros (total 470): Airinux, Amahi, Ångström, ArtistX, Asturix, […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.2

Discontinued distros: Chaox, Damn Vulnerable Linux, KateOS Added 10 distros (total 420): 0, Arch Linux ARM, FREESCO, LliureX, Manjaro, MNIS, […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.1

Discontinued distros: gnuLiNex, gOS Added 11 distros (total 410): Bodhi, Exherbo, FireFly, Pear OS, Kwort, MAX, mkLinux, Tails, Viperr, webOS, […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 11.10

Discontinued distros: none Added 10 distros (total 400): AtheOS, BrazilFW, Dream Studio, Garuda, Leka Rescue Floppy, Linux Mint Debian, Syllable, […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 11.8

Discontinued distros: Jollix Added 10 distros (total 390): Arc-Live, A/V, Bardinux, Liquid Lemur, Moblin 2, Porteus, Rocks, TEENpup, VENENUX, ZENIX […]

Crowdsourcing, does it work?

After a short essay on methodology we’re curious to find out whether there are any master-snoops among our audience. We […]

GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 11.7

Discontinued distros: none Added 10 distros (total 380): BlueOnyx, DEFT, Greenie, Jollix, Linvo, LPS, Newtoos, PLATYPUX, Semplice, SlaXBMC Added connectors: […]

You know my methods, Watson

Greenie. An Ubuntu-based distribution that seems to be pretty popular in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and thus probably a […]

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An update

This place hasn’t seen any activity in over six years – except for the comments asking what is going on – so I thought I’d write a little update.

Seeing the comments and the old posted timelines make me nostalgic. I started drawing the timeline “by hand” in 2006 using Dia, Inkscape and whichever vector drawing tool KDE came with – hmm, was it Karbon even back then?

It was all based on a bitmap drawing I had found on kde-files.org. People loved it and after about four years this fellow named Donjan contacted me and told me about his neat little cladogram builder program called Gnuclad in which updates were very easy to make, and where the layout was automated. It was such a timesaver and a really cool project.

While my life got busy with other things, Donjan took over and started doing all the updates. In this time the amount of listed distributions doubled! But the cumbersome part is the data collection and verifying everything and after some time also Donjan stopped with the updating.

So now what? Well, due to the beautiful nature of the GNU Free Documentation License anyone is free to build upon and improve a work and currently I can only point you to https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline where there is a timeline based on GLDT. It seems some people contribute over there and unlike this one it has been updated in the last few years.

However be warned: The above mentioned timeline has scrapped GNU and is NOT a GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline. Too bad. But hey, better than nothing I suppose.

Strangely, they kept the GLDT file naming, which is not right since G stands for GNU.

Here you’ll find the last GLDT version. Hopefully I’ll soon have time and inspiration to update GLDT again!

I also aim to use this space to write some things on projects I find interesting related to the history, current development and future of GNU/Linux.

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Gnu linux distribution timeline

Q: Why not add Android?

A: Android is indeed a Linux derivative, but it does not include GNU and this is a GNU/Linux timeline.

12 thoughts on “ FAQ ”

What’s happen? No new timelines?

i think the point is clear however… capitalism successfully achieved.

how was this graphic created, which tools, apps?

With Chrome OS becoming so popular, Microsoft forcing Windows 10 down everyone’s throat, and Macs costing a bazillion dollars, Linux is on the rise again, especially among those of us who work in the tech field. Now would probably be a good time for a Linux Master such a yourself to update this bad boy.

How many Linux distros are there?

It is unknown because everybody can make his/her/they own Linux distro, so anyway take a look on distrowatch.com and watch an approximation

Hey there!
What is a program for making such a tree?

Dumb question re: solus and pardus. The package manager in solus is a fork of the one in pardus – shouldn’t that mean they are linked?

What is the application thats is used to generate such beautiful graphics?

It’s Donjans amazing little program called Gnuclad – you’ll find the link in the sidebar! Have fun with it.

Is there anything within the past 12 months?

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GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.2

• Discontinued distros: Chaox, Damn Vulnerable Linux, KateOS
• Added 10 distros (total 420): 0, Arch Linux ARM, FREESCO, LliureX, Manjaro, MNIS, Nature’s Linux, Pingo, Project Ballantin, Unifix
• Added connectors: Kubuntu->Netrunner
• Contributors: appzer0, Clemens Tönnies, Dan, David Greekas, Ed Koenig, Esashi Net Groove Administrator, Kaspar Bumke, LliureX Team, mar04, Markus Hagenlocher, Neschur, Pablo, Pierre Morel, Rok Papež, siarhei
• Works best with gnuclad 0.2.4

18 thoughts on “ GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline 12.2 ”

@Diego:
Ututo has been based on Gentoo since 2002, as is displayed by a (admittedly somewhat hard to see) connector. If you have any evidence of Ututo being an Enoch fork, we’d be glad to include it!

AFAIK CrunchBang http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/about
is based on Debian, and not on Ubuntu.

@foo:
Yes, this is represented by the connector in 2010.

@donjan
On your chart, Ubuntu is shown –erroneously– as *parent* of CrunchBang;
CrunchBang *should* be connected and shown as direct child of Debian.

@foo:
See for example here.

Remmembner Chakra is originaly based on Arch but NOW is Completly independant
Frugalware use ArchLinux’s package manager Pacman (ojk a Pacman fork exactly)
If you want more Archlinux Deribates you can bbrowse the ArchLinux Wikia and if you are lucky fount the entire lis for proyect (around 50 incluiding actives and inactives)
Finally in words of Juddit Vinet Arch Founder, Arch have inpiration on CRUX

Backtrack5, actually, is based in Ubuntu Lucid…

There is now a fork of Aptosid called “Siduction”:

Thanks so much for your effort!

I downloaded all your files but seems that it’s not possible to generate an XML file with them? Is there a way to do it?

I don’t know what your criteria are for marking a distribution as discontinued, but the HostGIS website your chart links to says that development stopped in 2010.

Great work on this chart, by the way.

White Box Linux hasn’t been updated since 2007, and is effectively discontinued. Listed as “dormant” on the DistroWatch page.

I like your Linux distro timeline

I think that you should probably push a new version, even if you have only 5 or so additions. Few corrections, too.

@Pablo:
Yup, but that doesn’t change history. Not sure how to represent “now completely independent”…
As for derivatives, there’s plenty of that. What we need are more precise dates, for example for the distros on this list.

@victor:
Already implied by the connector at 2010.1.9.

@Gavin:
Thanks, I thought I included that already, but alas, it’ll go in right now 😉

@Nicky:
Have you downloaded and compiled gnuclad?
If yes, just run the build.sh script (bash or any other terminal emulator on GNU/Linux and OSX, cygwin on Windows) and it should build itself.

@Phil:
Good point… hmm, 2010 is a good stoppage point, since they last released in late 2009 and there is no mailing list activity whatsoever for 2010. Thanks for spotting that!

@Shane:
Thanks, I’ll take Aug 2009 as end date, since this is the point of the last blog activity, and the year the mailing lists dried up.

@Stefan:
It’s not the lack of additions, but rather the sloppy dates on the vast majority of submissions. A pretty tedious job to track everything down, as you know yourself. Plus I had a bad case of Real Life during the last few months 😉
Btw. working on an update…
If you want to invest a bit more time helping out, ask Andreas to put you on the submission feed.

@f7f56f969ad7d20a4e5010315a0a6bd7:disqus Thank you for the information, but with this way it build me a .svg if i’m not wrong? I would like to have an .xml file if this is possible, like that for example :

Ah, since a SVG is just a XML file anyway, I assumed this is what you meant.

You could filter the SVG with some text processing, but this is less convenient than just getting the data from the CSV.

If you want automatic output for your particular XML schema, you’d have to put on your C++ hat and write a new generator for gnuclad (to which I’d say yay!)… check the documentation in the gnuclad tarball (doc/index.html and the Programming topic) and compare with the existing generators (src/generator/…). Should be fairly straightforward to get what you’ve shown.

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