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The Python Foundation Asks For Help Re PYTHON Trademark in EU ~pj
Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:42 AM EST
That'd be good. Then if anyone can find lists of
companies that use each distro, that'd be good.

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The Python Foundation Asks For Help Re PYTHON Trademark in EU ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 04:47 PM EST
I have here the "LINUX aktuell!" CD-ROM set from December
1997 which includes the base system of S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1
(looong before it was called OpenSUSE, only the second
release that used RPM for its packages). That was released in
November 1997 and the CD has a rpm of Python 1.4 on it.

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Red Hat Linux
Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:28 PM EST
I personally started using Linux in 2000, using a 486 that a business had sold as scrap at a computer fair, and my first distro was RHL 6.1. At the time I was living in the UK - these days I live in Finland.

According to the RHL history page, I would have been using configuration tools written in Python almost as soon as I booted the installer CD - these tools were initially written in 1996, and extensively rewritten for RHL 6.0.

So, while I didn't actually code in Python on that machine (I was focussed on C++ and Java), it was definitely installed by default.

RHL was (and still is, as RHEL and Fedora) one of the more popular Linux distros. That implies that already a substantial fraction of Linux computers had Python - the programming language - on them by the turn of the millennium.

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  • Red Hat Linux - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 06:57 PM EST
Caldera Open Linux 2.3, August 16, 1999
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:45 PM EST
The file pkglist.gz contains the following entries:

python 1.5.1 1 Very high level scripting language.
python-devel 1.5.1 1 Libraries, source and header files for
buildin
python-doc 1.5.1 1 Documentation on Python.
python-eclass 1.2 2 Python ExtensionClass framework.
python-tk 1.5.1 1 Tk interface for Python.

I *knew* that old Caldera Open Linux 2.3 install CD I was given at a LUG meeting
back then would come in handy for something. I just didn't know, for what. Now
it can serve as a fitting memorial to the SCO greed, to use their work against
another troll.

Tkilgore, not logged in

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  • Redhat 5.2 - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 01:59 AM EST
  • RedHat Linux 4.2 - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 10:37 AM EST
The Python Foundation Asks For Help Re PYTHON Trademark in EU ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 04:49 PM EST
SuSE Linux 6.1, release date 1999-04-07 has ./CD1/suse/d1/python.rpm in the
index, and the corresponding actual rpm file on the CD. I have a commercially
produced, openly purchased original box set of the software.

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