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Linux 2001 Timeline

Posted by HeUnique on from the this-is-definately-in-a-must-read dept.

From the people at Eklektix Inc. (ok, everyone knows them simply as LWN or Linux Weekly News) have written the Linux 2001 Timeline (you can read it all at once with this link, though it's 1MB download). Lots of funny notes from Linus, Eric Raymond, RMS, some sad moments. Who would have remembered that Linux kernel 2.4.0 went out only a year ago (Jan. 4, 2001), Eric Raymond promising SourceForge mirrors, and other tidbits -- A definite must-read.

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  1. Humanoid robots? by mrroot · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article, July 2001:
    The University of Tokyo makes a Linux-powered humanoid robot

    Possible highlights from 2002's timeline:

    Sept 2002... Linux-powered humanoid robot gets rooted by 1337 hacker in under 10 minutes.

    Oct 2002... Microsoft makes a Windows XP-Powered Humanoid Robot, but it goes berserk, killing 12 innocent bystanders after it got a BSOD.

    Nov 2002... Pay per view event: Linux-Powered Humanoid Robot vs. Windows XP-Powered Humanoid Robot in a winner-take-all death match.

    Dec 2002... Army of Linux-powered humanoid robots march on Redmond, WA.

    --
    I Heart Sorting Networks
  2. Linus flees by Medievalist · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is just a great (and accurate) tidbit:
    Linus redefines min() and max() in the 2.4.9 stable release, then flees the country. Many people object to the new, nonstandard interface.
    I've just recently started testing 2.4-based distributions - there didn't seem to be any point when they were only nominally stable.

    Red Hat 7.2 seems useable, except for the broken pppd.

    --Charlie