[2] Le Blanc's irritations with his early experiments with Linux, such as the lack of a working fdisk (he would later write one), the need to use multiple FTP repositories to acquire all the essential software, and library version problems, inspired the creation of this distribution.
[3] Le Blanc claimed he referred to the distributions as "interim" because "...they are not intended to be final or official.
"[2] Prior to its first release, the closest approximation to a Linux distribution had been H J Lu's "Boot/Root" floppy disk images from early 1992.
[4] These were two 5¼" diskette images containing the Linux kernel and the minimum tools required to get started.
These in turn were quickly superseded by Slackware, Red Hat Linux and Debian, the oldest surviving distributions.