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Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, or LGX (pronounced ''igg-drah-sill''), was an early Linux distribution developed by Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated, a company founded by Adam J. Richter in Berkeley, California. Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. Yggdrasil Linux described itself as a "Plug-and-Play" Linux distribution, automatically configuring itself for the hardware. The last release of Yggdrasil was in 1995. Yggdrasil is the World Tree of Norse mythology. The name was chosen because Yggdrasil took disparate pieces of software and assembled them into a complete product. Yggdrasil's company motto was "Free Software For The Rest of Us".〔 Yggdrasil was compliant with the Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.〔(Linux SIG - Yggdrasil's Plug and Play Linux )〕 == History and releases == Yggdrasil announced their ‘bootable Linux/GNU/X-based UNIX(R) clone for PC compatibles’〔 on 24 November 1992 and made the first release on 8 December 1992.〔 This alpha release contained the 0.98.1 version of the Linux kernel, the v11r5 version of the X Window System supporting up to 1024x768 with 256 colours, various GNU utilities such as their C/C++ compiler, the GNU debugger, bison, flex, and make, TeX, groff, Ghostscript, the elvis and Emacs editors, and various other software. Yggdrasil's alpha release required a 386 computer with 8MB RAM and 100MB hard disk.〔 The alpha release was missing some of the source code of some of the packages, such as elvis. A beta release was made on 18 February 1993.〔(DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD )〕 The beta's cost was US$60. LGX's beta release in 1993 contained the 0.99.5 version of the Linux kernel, along with other software from GNU and X.〔 By 22 August 1993, the Yggdrasil company had sold over 3100 copies of the LGX beta distribution. The production release version carried a pricetag of US$99.〔 However, Yggdrasil was offered for free to any developer whose software was included with the CD distribution. According to an email from the company's founder the marginal cost of each subscription was $35.70. Early Yggdrasil releases were also available from stores selling CD-ROM software.〔(Archaeology )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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