Comment Re:A lack of Enlightenment? (Score 1) 611
I'd say Enlightenment certainly played a role in early posts, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that Slashdot got started *because* of it. As I remember it, Slashdot really got started because it was more of a Linux(and-related)-in-the-news aggregator; if Linux was mentioned somewhere, Rob did his best to link to it with some commentary. Sadly, I don't think the archives go back that far, so I guess we'll just have to have Battle of the Slightly Dusty Recollections.
Or...
https://web.archive.org/web/19...
That's the oldest listing I could find. It lists (including overlap):
Three Linux stories
One Gnome story
Eight MS stories
Two RH stories
Two Sun stories
And a smattering of other stuff...
(As a side note, Rob has an editorial -- https://web.archive.org/web/19... -- talking about "his" solution to the browser wars: GPL'ing Netscape. And the way it's written, it sounds like ESR hadn't gone public with that suggestion, yet. Looks like Rob may get an awful lot more credit for FireFox than I'd been giving him.)