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The main article doesn't make clear that "Plug and Play" meant that the Yggdrasil was designed to analyze your hardware and come up with a complete running Linux system, as Knoppix, Mandrake Move, et al do today. Yggdrasil was even more sophisticated than these recent systems as it allowed you to either (1) log in and use the system, (2) log in as "demo" and get a great automated demo, or (3) login as "install" and have the install process make use of a fully functional Linux system, rather than the usual severely cut down install O/S in modern distributions. Yggdrasil was very far ahead of its time. Jgd 05:33, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

What was kind of strange to me is that I ran across their website a few years ago, and they were still advertising their 1995 release. It was just so bizzare. I'm thinking we can safely remove the mention of anyone still wanting to use Yggdrasil these days, because there are other small linux distributions intended to run on low-memory / low-storage systems.

People today shouldn't be dismissive of Yggdrasil. In its time, it was important. I started playing with Linux in 1994 and I had been out of college for over ten years. Those still in college had healthy support networks to answer their dumb newbie questions. Those of us trying to figure it out on our own were lucky to have Yggdrasil. I was very impressed that Adam Richter would often answer the support line himself, and he was very very good at getting me through dumb newbie problems. I never met him in person but I do feel indebted to him for helping me get up the learning curve. - WillWare 22:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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