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== History ==

SLS was the most popular Linux distribution at the time, andbut dominatedit thewas marketconsidered untilto thebe developersrather madebuggy aby decisionits tousers. change the executable format whichIt was not wellsoon receivedsuperceded by the user base ([[a.outSlackware]] to(which [[Executablestarted andas Linkablea Format|ELF]]).cleanup Duringof thisSLS time,by [[Patrick Volkerding]] decided to modify SLS by tweaking) and cleaning it up. He called his finished work [[SlackwareYggdrasil Linux]], among others.

Similarly [[Ian Murdock]]'s frustration with SLS led him to create the [[Debian]] project.<ref>{{ cite web | first = Ian A | last = Murdock | title = NNTP Subject: New release under development; suggestions requested | url = http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6 | date = [[16 August]] [[1993]] | accessdate = 2007-08-17 }}</ref>