| jurix | |
| Developer: | Florian La Roche |
| Family: | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Latest Release Version: | with kernel 2.0.36 |
| Discontinued: | yes |
| Working State: | Discontinued |
| License: | GNU GPL |
Jurix was an early Linux distribution created by Florian La Roche, a former employee of the legal department at Saarland University. The distribution was maintained between 1993 and 1999[1] and hosted on the now-defunct "jurix.jura.uni-sb.de" and "susix.jura.uni-sb.de" domains.
In 1996, jurix superseded Slackware as a base for SuSE Linux.[2]
The name "jurix" was borrowed from the department's first HTTP server, named by Alexander Sigel.[3] It is not known whether the name was taken from the nearby Dutch law and IT organisation JURIX, or simply a portmanteau of "Jura" (meaning "law" in German) and "Unix".
A readme from 1999 touts the following software, among others:[4]