[3] Yggdrasil announced their ‘bootable Linux/GNU/X-based UNIX(R) clone for PC compatibles’[4] on 25 November 1992[5] and made the first release on 8 December 1992.

[1] This alpha release contained the 0.98.1 version of the Linux kernel, the v11r5 version of the X Window System supporting up to 1024x768 with 256 colours, various GNU utilities such as their C/C++ compiler, the GNU Debugger, bison, flex, and make, TeX, groff, Ghostscript, the elvis and Emacs editors, and various other software.

LGX's beta release in 1993 contained the 0.99.5 version of the Linux kernel, along with other software from GNU and X.

Richter spoke to Michael Tiemann about setting up a business, but was not interested in joining forces with Cygnus.

[6] Richter was using only a 200 MB hard disk when building the alpha release of LGX, which prevented him from practically being able to include the source code of some of the packages contained in the CDROM.

[13] The company once made an offer to donate 60% of the Yggdrasil CDROM sales revenues to the Computer Systems Research Group, but founder Adam J. Richter later indicated that the company would lose too much money and changed the offer accordingly, while still maintaining donations to CSRG.