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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.

4 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Put down the PS2 Controller and Pay Attention by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yeah, less than a year ago by like 15 days.

    "The long-awaited 2.4.0 kernel was released on January 4 (announcement)."

    Let's see, Jan 4 2001 to Dec 19, 2001, unless I'm trippin that's basically a fucking year!

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  2. MPAA==RIAA==maffia by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Informative
    "Jack Valenti predicts that Congress will require copy-protection controls in nearly all consumer electronic devices and PCs. The lobbyist nonpareil for the Motion Picture Association of America delivered a stark warning to technology firms on Monday : Move quickly to choose standards for wrapping digital content in uncopyable layers of encryption or the federal government will do it for you."

    There was another guy in Chicago in the '30s with an Italian-sounding name who used to go around businesses saying "accept our protection or something bad might happen to you".

    Jack, you and your lobbyist goons should be sued for spreading thinly disguised threats like your do. Your pathetic schemes will end you making everybody's life miserable just because you don't know how to make a buck without twisting people's wrists. I say get fsck you with a steel wire brush ...

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  3. Stolen straight from the Register by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The above post was Ben Ostrowsky's entry in the Reg's "Google Underpants" contest, where contestants submitted the best Usenet posts they'd never seen.

  4. Re:Linus flees [pppd bug details] by Medievalist · · Score: 2, Informative

    /.
    The problem, specifically, is in the patches that Red Hat added to Paul Makerras' code base. I had a working configuration that was in regular use for Win98 and MacOS dial-ins running under 6.22, and that same configuration completely failed to work under 7.2. Once I installed the source .RPM and recompiled without the patches the same configuration worked fine, and I now have it in use on the test box.
    This is a known problem that was reported to Red Hat's Bugzilla box as bug #55367 and apparently the patch that causes it was obtained from Dell (see Bugzilla #15738). The comments all refer to windows, but I know for a fact that it also affects pre-OSX macs, and I'd guess most DOS dialups as well.
    From your comments I'd guess this doesn't affect dial-out, which is somewhat interesting. You haven't seen an update from Red Hat because there isn't one, they have not addressed the problem yet.
    --Charlie