[LINUX] Create own Linux Distribution Timeline Map [MANUAL]

Hey Serey! This manual is about creating own Linux Distro Timeline. What is GLDT (GNU/Linux Distro TimeLine)? It's a tree, basically. With Linux Distributions. More specifically, it's a gnuclad tree. I'm going to show you what I mean:  # Gnuclad But what the hell is gnuclad? It's quite old program (latest release was in the middle of 2010's), which still works and correctly draws pretty-view trees in Linux. That's the power of Linux! All these updates still didn't broke this old piece of software. Let's download and build it: ## Ubuntu If you're on one of the most popular distros, please make this commands: ``` sudo apt install inkscape wget https://launchpad.net/gnuclad/trunk/0.2/+download/gnuclad-0.2.4.tar.gz tar -xvf gnuclad-0.2.4.tar.gz cd gnuclad-0.2.4/ sh configure make sudo make install ``` We are installing inkscape because we need it to produce PNG from SVG. If the "sh configure" command says you don't have the C compiler or something, do the `sudo apt install gcc` beforehead, and then continue from `sh configure` step and on. ## Arch If you're on Arch Linux or Manjaro, build process is much easier - we already have the AUR package which is, of course, named "gnuclad". Just do: `yaourt -S gnuclad` or `packer -S gnuclad` and agree to compile the package. Nice! ## Next step: drawing Now we have the gnuclad installed in our system. And we can "draw" or "compile" the image with it. Let's download the source repo: `git clone https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline` Okay, now we can actually draw. Let's try it! ``` cd LinuxTimeline ./build.sh ``` Now you should see something like this: ``` gnuclad 0.2.4: gldt.csv => gldt.svg Computing cladogram for 577 nodes, 126 connectors and 6 domains... Done Background RRGGBBAA: ffffff00 Area -31:0:2820:12664 exported to 2851 x 12664 pixels (96 dpi) Bitmap saved as: gldt.png Packaging... Distribution can be found in DIST_gldt ``` If you see similar output, everything went fine and you should have the "DIST_gldt" folder inside the LinuxTimeline folder. Go there with your file manager to find the `gldt.svg` and `gldt.png` files accordingly. You can now print out this pretty graphics or just open it with any viewer and look at the development of one of the largest OS community in the world. # Full Timeline (Oct 2018) # [](https://i.imgur.com/VgRID3s.png) or https://imgur.com/VgRID3s Hope this small build manual will be useful for those, who's interested about Linux history. # Source repo https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline # Used tools * gnuclad * gcc * inkscape # Improvements & development If you like to help to improve this tree, please follow github and review the README to help this project. Cheers, **Den Ivanov aka @sxiii from Random City**