Software:Jurix

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jurix
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DeveloperFlorian La Roche
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Initial release1993; 31 years ago (1993)
yes|Final release|Latest release}}with kernel 2.0.36 / November 17, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-11-17)
LicenseGNU GPL

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In 1996, jurix superseded Slackware as a base for SuSE Linux.[2]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

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