Web site: linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distributions/jurix/docs/
Origin: Germany
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86
Based on: Independent
Wikipedia: Jurix
Media: Install Floppy
The last version | Released: 1998
Jurix – a cutting edge Linux distribution which uses the traditional unix philosophy KISS. Jurix started in 1993 and is thus one of the oldest Linux distributions. It started with three floppy disks and it didn’t take much time until I needed five of them.
Jurix is a Linux distribution with the following features: kernel 1.3.91, libc 5.2.18, gcc 2.7.2, ncurses 1.9.9e, shadow passwords, XFree86 3.1.2-S, tcl 7.5b3, tk 4.1b3.
All programs are converted to use the terminfo database from ncurses.
Jurix has a clean filesystem layout and good support of networking programs. Jurix is best used, if you are directly connected to the Internet.
The main thing for jurix is, that it has a very quick way of handling patches to source files and that I have put together a complete source tree. You can see very fast, what patches were used to compile a program and send me further patches, if you want to have something changed. Or you can use those patches to upgrade to a newer version of a program yourself.
It is one install disk that contains a kernel and also a 2.88 MB filesystem, that is compressed to fit on the floppy. It contains a menue-guided install program called setup that supports installation from an ext2 filesystem, via network (NFS, with bootp support to get nearly all network settings for lazy people) or from a pre-mounted directory.
This disk can also be used as rescue disk. It has rlogin, filesystem utilities, an editor (pico) and additional support progs like a script that automagically configures your network settings via bootp. If you do not want to use a menue-guided installation, then you can edit a configuration file and use that config file to re-install your system whenever you like. No need to answer the install question over and over again.
In 1996 Jurix replaced Slackware as a base for SuSE Linux.
The Jurix screenshot source: Wikipedia; License: GNU GPL.
