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"Plug and Play"

The main article doesn't make clear that "Plug and Play" meant that the Yggdrasil was designed to analyze your hardware and come up with a complete running Linux system, as Knoppix, Mandrake Move, et al do today. Yggdrasil was even more sophisticated than these recent systems as it allowed you to either (1) log in and use the system, (2) log in as "demo" and get a great automated demo, or (3) login as "install" and have the install process make use of a fully functional Linux system, rather than the usual severely cut down install O/S in modern distributions. Yggdrasil was very far ahead of its time. Jgd 05:33, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yggdrasil today

What was kind of strange to me is that I ran across their website a few years ago, and they were still advertising their 1995 release. It was just so bizzare. I'm thinking we can safely remove the mention of anyone still wanting to use Yggdrasil these days, because there are other small linux distributions intended to run on low-memory / low-storage systems.

Yggdrasil in its time

People today shouldn't be dismissive of Yggdrasil. In its time, it was important. I started playing with Linux in 1994 and I had been out of college for over ten years. Those still in college had healthy support networks to answer their dumb newbie questions. Those of us trying to figure it out on our own were lucky to have Yggdrasil. I was very impressed that Adam Richter would often answer the support line himself, and he was very very good at getting me through dumb newbie problems. I never met him in person but I do feel indebted to him for helping me get up the learning curve. - WillWare 22:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

links

Removing useful links doesn't look like a good way to improve an article to me... NerdyNSK 23:19, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is an encyclopedia article, not a "collection of useful links". The article on the domestic rabbit doesn't include any maps to pet shops. Chris Cunningham 11:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

pronounciation ref

Could someone explain me who in their right mind would delete the pronunciation reference? NerdyNSK 23:28, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The one which pointed to the LinuxQuestions wiki? I could have edited that page myself to say that it was pronounced "Mangrove Throat-Warbler" if I'd wanted. Not a reliable source by any stretch of the imagination. Chris Cunningham 11:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move to San Jose misdated

Yggdrasil was located in San Jose at least since late 1994; I worked for them briefly in 1995. Hpa (talk) 01:38, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Free software: Yggdrasil is now the selected article

Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was GNU wget - the command line http client.

For other interesting free software articles, you can take a look at the archive of PF's selectees. --Gronky (talk) 14:29, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Things moved on and Cygwin is now the selected article. Cygwin is software to make a Windows box act as GNU-ish and Unix-ish as possible and to make free software applications available to users of MS Windows. --Gronky (talk) 09:46, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious resurrection

Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X#History_and_releases contains this text. "A community effort in continuing the development of Yggdrasil has been started in early 2022, having an alpha release planned to be on late March or early April 2022." with a cite that is a link to the readme of a Github project talking about creating what would effectively be a new distro recycling the old name and no indication of continuity from the original project. The Github project contains no source & was last updated in 2022.

I'm not keen on deciding to remove cited information without consultation, but I think the cite is a primary source and probably advertising so could be removed. With that gone, the text I quoted above should also be removed.

Comments please? Kiore (talk) 03:48, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds reasonable to remove with nothing in the repo and no other coverage of the proposed reboot. Newystats (talk) 00:36, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The last it on that repo was in 2022 anyway… already seemed suspicious to me when I asked about it on the repo Sinclair-Speccy (talk) 07:37, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Possibility of adding releases?

The title may not be clear but a while ago on Gunkies I listed the releases of Yggdrasil as I read some old mailing list stuff with Yggdrasil.

I wonder if it would be possible to do that here too on the Wikipedia article? I feel the only issue would be a lack of information for certain releases as I’ve info for only the 1992 Alpha release and Fall 1993 release Sinclair-Speccy (talk) 07:42, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Internet Archive has a few CDROM images of Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X available for download which may help your search.

You can also do a general search on the downloads archive for Yggdrasil which also turns up a lot of other uses of the word, but may be hiding some gems. Query=Yggdrasil

Hope that helps Kiore (talk) 01:32, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I meant more of listing what each release contains. Sinclair-Speccy (talk) 07:10, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]