Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was one of the first Linux distributions. The first release was by Peter MacDonald in May 1992.GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline, version 11.4 by A. Lundqvist, D. Rodic Their slogan at the time was "Gentle touchdowns for DOS bailouts." SLS was the first release to offer a comprehensive Linux distribution containing more than the Linux kernel, GNU, and other basic utilities, including an implementation of the X Window System.
History SLS was the most popular Linux distribution at the time, but it was considered to be rather buggy by its users. It was soon superseded by Slackware (which started as a cleanup of SLS by Patrick Volkerding) and Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, among others. Similarly, Ian Murdock's frustration with SLS led him to create the Debian project.
Series The system consists of the following series which were installed via floppy disk: a1-a4: The minimal base system b1-b8: Base system extras (man pages, Emacs, etc.) c1-c3: The compiler(s), gcc/g++/p2c/f2c d1-d2: Documentation s1: Source t1-t3: TeX document processing x1-x11: X Window System distribution, documentation and idraw
Version History +Known SLS releasesVersionRelease date0.96c12 August 19920.987 October 1992HISTORY / CHANGELO file included with all releases.1.0118 April 19931.02 28 April 19931.035 August 19931.0421 October 19931.055 April 19941.06Late 1994README included with this release.
References
External links SLS at Princeton University SLS version 1.02 at GitHub SLS version 1.03 at ibiblio https://archiveos.org/sls/