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Linux 2001 Timeline
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.
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
In a Jon Stewart voice, "If... you happen... to use Linux".
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
Microsoft claims it is responsible for the creation and all of the innovation in Linux, announces that its next release will be Linux based, and that everyone who uses Linux in any capacity will owe them royalties, license fees, and due homage.
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Umm, isn't that nitpicking, it's close enough to a year. The editors make dumb mistakes a *lot* around here, but this time I think they made a reasonable round off.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
My daughter was born January 4, 2001. Coincidence? I think not.
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IMHO, of course.
May the SOURCE be with you.
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!
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Does anyone know if the overall market share of Mac OS X is greater than the market share of Linux yet?
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 ...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Put this in your timeline...
I wasted $200 on Linux Vaporware... The Agenda VR3 PDA Developer's edition. (Stupid Battery Guzzler)
Actually it wasn't a waste, I still love mine, but funny how it wasn't mentioned, at all in 2001.
"It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
November 2001: Microsoft lies about Embedded Linux
This couldn't have been that hard to compile, all you have to do is grep through the Slashdot story titles for the past year for certain keywords and the timeline writes itself.
--trb
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.
Many announcements in the timeline tell stories from different companies "quarterly loss", "lays off 20 people", "file for bankruptcy". Many creative company's have gone this way this year and it looks like they didn't really understand the market they were trying to get into.
Sometimes it reminds me of a rather old IBM ad on TV. Two guys talking, one reads a paper "We have to get on the internet" "Why?" "That's not in the text."
Like founding a company with a "let's do something cool in Linux" philosphy but without any clue or concept. They're trying to queeze Linux into their marketing scheme and then wonder why it doesn't work.
and its not a new one at all
:)
The linux market is maturing and on its path from hobbyism to professionalism a long way has been completed, yet running is still necessary to catch up.
Nonetheless the dices are showing its eyes and business it is.
The OpenSource EVOLUTION are successful. At least in my eyes. The purpose was to me, to establish a foundation of a counterpart to the monopolistic software business we all love and hate as Microsoft.
No single company was capable of establishing such a counterpart, not even Sun or IBM, yet they have tried, I'll grant them that. So instead companies and people have fought hand in hand in spawning an alternative to MS that could survive and co-exist with Windows. We have succeeded.
Linux will be continue to be free thanks to the GPL and the support, so will the BSD's.
But one thing to acknowledge is that we will see more and more services based on paid subscriptions to be introduced.
As the dark ages matures and the warlords loses their strength due to long lasting battles, threaties are signed and peace and prosperity grows.
Rivers of blood was to be seen, but the blood have not been wasted, it has found new purpose. It ripped up existence, to seed the changes.
We have a new market now. But it is still young.
Compared to before the dark ages, Romans were in control, and Romans alone. Rome collapsed, but still it exist today. But things are different, won't you say?
I didn't say this one was going to be easy to understand. The software and business markets are only a small pocket in time. So are world history. - Open your eyes.
Once I had karma, now I have none.
...very interesrting they would comment on the Linux need for Virus Sccanners. I can't seem to find a Linux Virus Scanning Engine on the site anymore...there was one once...
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
Damn it, that was funny.
/. .RPM and recompiled without the patches the same configuration worked fine, and I now have it in use on the test box.
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
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
Well, the Sourceforge mirrors didn't seem to work out. But hey, maybe ESR can sell off those VA Linux options and buy Linus a cheeseburger or something.
Surprised at 29 cent burger day?
--saint
Even Microsoft took less than 10 years to become less shitty. What the hell is taking so long, open source people?
The same reason it's taking Microsoft so long. Too much programming, not enough design work, and not enough attention paid to quality and efficiency.
<rant>
You can tell which programmers is contributing to the problem: anyone who says "but with today's 2GHz computers, that's not really a problem" is too lazy or too unskilled to actually FIX the problem, so they simply justify it. It's the same problem as Microsoft has had, unfortunately.
</rant>
Ahh, OK. That makes mucho sense to me. Thanks for the clarification!