Jurix

jurix

Developer	Florian La Roche
OS family	Linux (Unix-like)
Working state	Discontinued
Initial release	1993; 32 years ago (1993)
Final release	with kernel 2.0.36 / November 17, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-11-17)
License	GNU GPL
Official website	linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distributions/jurix/docs

Jurix was an early Linux distribution created by Florian La Roche, a former employee of the legal department at Saarland University. The distribution was maintained between 1993 and 1999^[1] and hosted on the now-defunct "jurix.jura.uni-sb.de" and "susix.jura.uni-sb.de" domains.

In 1996, jurix superseded Slackware as a base for SuSE Linux.^[2]

The name "jurix" was borrowed from the department's first HTTP server, named by Alexander Sigel.^[3] It is not known whether the name was taken from the nearby Dutch law and IT organisation JURIX, or simply a portmanteau of "Jura" (meaning "law" in German) and "Unix".

A readme from 1999 touts the following software, among others:^[4]

• modularized kernel 2.0.37 and 2.2.10
• libc 5.4.46
• egcs 1.1.2
• ncurses 4.2-980822
• shadow passwords
• XFree86 3.3.3.1
• KDE 1.1.1

References

1. "History of Jurix". linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de. Technische Universität Darmstadt. 1999. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
2. "Archive:S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2". openSUSE. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
3. "Geschichte des Internetprojekts" (in German). Saarland University. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
4. La Roche, Florian (1999-02-26). "jurix Linux readme". Technische Universität Darmstadt. Retrieved 2019-01-20.

External links

• Official website