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Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution

Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have no trouble nam [...]

He made use of ramdisk code by Ted Ts'o, took binaries from a proto-distribution created by H. J. Lu, and he wrote the original Linux fdisk " bugs and all" for the project. During the time MCC was maintained, he said that he had received advice and suggestions from many people, including Torvalds, Ts'o, Almesberger, Alan Cox, as well as local users " especially John Heaton, Ted Harding and Nobby Clark". Although this approach produces poorer quality systems that cost more in the long run to maintain and update, it's very hard to convince (non-technical) higher managers of this.

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