Softlanding Linux System

[2][3] Their slogan at the time was "Gentle Touchdowns for DOS Bailouts".

SLS was the first release to offer a comprehensive Linux distribution containing more than the Linux kernel, GNU, and other basic utilities, including an implementation of the X Window System.

[1] SLS was the most popular Linux distribution at the time, but it was considered to be rather buggy by its users.

It was soon superseded by Slackware (which started as a cleanup of SLS by Patrick Volkerding) and Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, among others.

Similarly, Ian Murdock's frustration with SLS led him to create the Debian project.