LinuxTimeline

This kind of stuff pisses me off, yesterday we went to B&N, I picked up this magazine because I was waiting for something and I noticed an error at page 29, unacceptable for a magazine that costs $30. https://images2.imgbox.com/3c/4a/lyUvpQPL_o.png it shows Debian was released before Slackware, incorrect: Slackware = July 1993 and Debian = August 1993. You can also double check here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/releases And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian Etc.etc., who doesn't this stuff anyway come on.

> The first Linux distribution was also started in 1992: Softlanding Linux System or SLS. The next year, SLS morphed into Slackware, which inspired Ian Murdock to start Debian in 1993, in order to explore a more community-based development structure. A few other distributions would follow in the years to come. And follow they did! The Great Linux Distribution Timeline at <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...> presents an impressive graph of the countless distributions that descended from Slackware, Debian, etc. This graph is still actively maintained by the community here: <https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline>.

In light of the recent acquisition of VMWare by Broadcom, I was frustrated trying to dig up some of their previous takeovers, the details of which are often buried behind freemium market analysis sites. I was hoping to find some sort of interactive timeline or family tree outlining the various M&A activities within the tech industry that have occured over the years. Surely there's a way to track basic data around each party through a GH project? The amazing Linux Timeline [1] would be a great inspiration, but distributions only split, not merge. There are some OK static visualisations for mergers in the libtech industry [2] Infocaptor also host a visualisation for Google's M&As [3] [1] https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline [2] https://librarytechnology.org/mergers/ [3] https://my.infocaptor.com/dash/mt.php?pa=google_acquisitions_56

Not sure you can find diffs, but this is the repository that builds that svg in case you wanna poke around: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline

It looks very similar to this[1] which uses a fork of a deprecated project called gnuclad[2], which, like gnuplot, is not a GNU project. [1]https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline [2]https://launchpad.net/gnuclad

The direction of the timeline can be discussed here: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/issues/157

Version 20.10 released on 25 October 2020 https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/releases/tag/v20.10 Direct PNG (5.00 MB!) link https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/19638095/97118180-e25f3680-1708-11eb-8be…

It appears to be someone by the name of Fabio Loli, not Wikipedia people. * https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline