jurix
jurix was an early, mostly on floppy disks built Linux distro that is no longer being developed today. It was brought into being and supervised by Florian La Roche from the legal department of the University of Saarbrücken and is provided with a copyright notice for at least the period from 1994 to 1996. At the end of this time, the fourth-level domains “jurix” and “susix” in the hierarchy “jura.uni-sb.de” were used for communication and the initial publication of the packed results.
The origin of the name jurix does not go back to La Roche, but to Alexander Sigel, an employee of the same university. In 1994, he named the department's first Internet server “jurix” - it was already running on Linux. There are no indications whether this decision is somehow related to the not too distant Dutch educational institution for law and information technology called JURIX , or whether it is a simple combination of the terms “Jura” and “Unix” / “Linux” “Acts. Ultimately, it has been proven that La Roche itself was given the official task of administering this web platform in 1995.
A discussion of the history of Linux included the words:
“Fabian (in fact meant: Florian La Roche) had previously been in the Debian project, but left due to the fighting. The initial version of JURIX were tarballs. "
“Fabian (meaning: Florian La Roche) was previously involved in the Debian project, but left it because of the disputes there. The original form of distribution of JURIX were files packed with the tar tool . "
The last known and archived version of the distribution essentially consisted of these applications:
The distribution had a few other features, including in particular an installation program that was also able to perform scripted installations and thus made a certain software set reproducible on relatively similar machines. Standards like BOOTP or NFS were supported. As the central file system for use, ext2 was integrated into the distribution by default.
This overall package later formed the starting point for the initial version of the actual distribution SuSE Linux and its successors. In the further course of the development, the supervisor of jurix also joined the company SuSE and was there for B. is responsible for the installer and the configuration tool YaST written by it .