Yggdrasil Linux
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Yggdrasil Linux was an early Linux distribution ("distro") developed by Yggdrasil, a company founded by Adam Richter. Yggdrasil Linux was described as being a "Plug-and-Play" Linux distribution, in the sense that it would automatically configure itself for your hardware, a feature that is now taken for granted.
It is often mentioned in the back of hard copies of HOWTOs at the time, as "Plug-and-play Linux".
Last released in 1995, the distribution is still available from ibiblio [1] for those who need to support old hardware with an old distro, or who are interested in the history of Linux.
The name Yggdrasil refers to the World Tree of Norse mythology.
Yggdrasil was the first company to create a CD-ROM based Linux distribution. Their claim was that the OS would run straight from the CD (somewhat similar to, say, today's Knoppix distribution). The slow speed of CD hardware and the relatively nascent state of Linux at that point meant that the feature did not work very well, if at all. They also published some of the early Linux compilation books, such as The Linux Bible, and contributed significantly to file system and X Window System functionality of Linux in the early days of their operations.
