# LinuxTimeline

**Repository Path**: mirrors_FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: LinuxTimeline
- **Description**: Linux Distributions Timeline
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GFDL-1.3
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 1
- **Forks**: 1
- **Created**: 2022-01-06
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-23

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

Linux Distribution Timeline | README
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* Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Andreas Lundqvist, Donjan Rodic, Mohammed A. Mustafa
* Copyright (C) 2016 Muhammad Herdiansyah
* Copyright (C) 2016-Onwards Fabio Loli

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Current source: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline

Original source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220403102136/http://futurist.se/gldt/

### CONTRIBUTING

See [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING)

### Installation

If you want to build your own version, make sure you have gnuclad
installed.

To install gnuclad, you can download the source at https://launchpad.net/gnuclad

For Arch users, use the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnuclad/

After you have installed gnuclad, to build just the svg, run:

    gnuclad ldt.csv SVG ldt.conf

You can run the script `build.sh` to build the svg, png, and the tarball
containing the source, ImageMagick is required to convert from svg to png.


### Info archive

Since timeline version 21.10 all links are replaced to the correspective page 
at the info archive https://distroware.gitlab.io/

For version 20.10 all links are replaced to the correspective page 
at the info archive https://fabiololix.gitlab.io/

It is open and can be built using Mkdocs static site generator, code hosted both at

https://gitlab.com/Distroware/distroware.gitlab.io

https://github.com/FabioLolix/distroware.gitlab.io


### Projects which are not a Linux distribution

| **Projects which are not a Linux distribution** |  |
|-|-|
| [Barebox](https://www.barebox.org/) | Bootloader designed for embedded systems. It runs on a variety of architectures including x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and others |
| [OpenEmbedded](https://www.openembedded.org/) | Software framework for creating embedded Linux distributions |
| [PTXdist](https://www.ptxdist.org/) | Build system for firmware images, the collection of recipes is based on GNU Make and Bash |
| [rauc](https://www.rauc.io/) | Lightweight update client that runs on your embedded Linux  |
| [Yocto Project](https://www.yoctoproject.org/) | Complete embedded Linux development environment |
|  |  |


### Related resources

https://distrowatch.com/

https://archiveos.org/linux/

https://lwn.net/Distributions/

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/

https://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/

https://www.debian.org/derivatives/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_distributions

https://distroware.gitlab.io/lists/RaspberryPi_OS/