repost of https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113764593952462070 with actually useful alt text
@scy wait, THREE distros? What's the third supposed to be?
@kly @scy Slackware, Debian, and Redhat.
@colinstu @kly @scy
depending on when exactly you were (are) thirteen: arch/nix/ubuntu-that-has-sufficiently-diverged-from-debian-to-be-counted-separately
@guenther @colinstu @kly @scy if you'd be 40 now, then at 13 there was also no Ubuntu.
The trio Slackware/Debian/Red Hat makes sense but with the important side note that SuSE is derived from Slackware. (And at the time, YaST could still install both RPMs and Slackware's tgz packages.)
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