The history of SoL

The very first version of SoL, SoL 13.37 was released on the 1st of March, 2002. It was revolutionary in that it broke with then common paradigms, e.g. introducing a new XML boot-technology as well as the "/server" directory where server applications would live in their own, seperate directories. Some of these concepts were later adopted by other distributions.
Since day one, the SoL philosophy has been that the system user (or, in that case, administrator) has complete control over his system and knows what she is doing. We, the SoL developers, think that we should not provide a set of predefined configurations for such complex systems, and therefore provide the services "as is", like they are meant to be when provided by the creator.
Hence, SoL does not provide bloated global configuration monsters that explode in flames when you do minor changes. Only very simple basic "system" configuration tasks like network and keyboard configuration as well as the start of services are "handled by SoL", the configuration of programs, services, daemons, servers, utilities, etc. has to be done by the user himself.
  1. SoL 13.37 Year 2002
    This was the first release, almost 6 months of compile work!
  2. SoL 15.00
  3. SoL-desktop 0.1a
  4. SoL-diag 1.1
  5. SoL 16.00
    Lots of servers still run this release having uptimes > 600 days! Lots of media feedback!
  6. SoL-desktop 0.2
  7. SoL 17.00
  8. OoL - Office optimized Linux
    An experiment. We changed the concept.
  9. XoL - Diskless X office Linux 17.00o BETA
  10. SoL 18.00 BETA
    Thanks again to the community for doing so much testing!
  11. XoL - Diskless X office Linux 18.00 BETA
  12. XoL - Diskless X office Linux 18.00
    It was perfect. 1min boot time, good hardware detection!
  13. SoL - Server optimized Linux 18.00 FINAL
    The best release at this time.
  14. SoL-DESKTOP - 18.00 FINAL
  15. Linux für alle! (based on XoL 18.00)
    Customized distribution for the greens party
  16. SoL EJS CD
    Customized SoL 18.00 with commercial workflow server by iDATA
  17. SoL++ (unreleased)
    This version never left the office...
  18. Sirius Server
    Commercial distribution for iDATA This distribution got the 3rd place at the Constantinus award: antitachyon bei Constantinus-Award ausgezeichnet
  19. Sirius Workstation
    Commercial distribution for iDATA
  20. SoL 19-24 (internal versions)
    Never made it to a DVD...
  21. SoL 25.00 - Year 2007
    Now we are here :o)