It's still April 1st somewhere.

> In 1994, with help from Patrick Volkerding, Slackware scripts were translated into German, which was marked as the first release of S.u.S.E. Linux 1.0 distribution. It was available first on floppies, and then on CDs.

RPM was first released in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux

I actually meant to say they are the oldest lasting company around Linux, not distro.