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Linux Timeline By LWN and LJ

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-my-navel dept.

A reader wrote to us with the link that Linux Journal has put together a Linux Timeline. Kinda nice to walk down memory lane - and think about what was on peoples' mind at each major point. Of course, if I see the original letter Linus wrote at the beginning one more time...*grin*

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  1. Re:Wars by Arandir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux didn't start out as an alternative to Windows. It started out as an alternative to Minix and proprietary unices. Linus wanted a unix on his computer. GNU was grossly incomplete. BSD was being mugged by AT&T. Everything else was proprietary. So he started his own.

    It wasn't until the age of Slashdot when a significant minority of Linux users (not coders) decided that Linux had to be an alternative or replacement for Windows.

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  2. Starting 1991? by mpawlo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am sorry, but how can you start a Linux timeline in 1991? I would have started much earlier on MIT's lab for artificial intelligence. Does anyone really believe that Linux would have been such a success story without its license?

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  3. Re:Wars by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 5, Insightful

    perhaps more proper to say, GNU started out as an alternative to proprietary code. Linux then came along and took some GNU stuff to make it completely usable, and was an alternative to proprietary software. not so much Unix of M$, just un-free software.

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  4. crappy timeline by dutky · · Score: 4, Insightful
    How can anyone claim to have a meaningful Linux timeline that doesn't even include the dates of the major kernel releases or the publication of CatB (or the Halloween documents)? Are we really supposed to believe that nothing important happened to the Linux community for over a year and a half between April 1995 and January 1997?

    What a load of self-serving garbage.

  5. RMS gave up all claim on linux ... by hayden · · Score: 4, Insightful
    When he rejected it in favour of the Hurd. If it wasn't for Linux there still wouldn't be a usable GNU OS (seeing as the Hurd still isn't a full kernel) and MS would rule the world.

    He passed on the chance to make it GNU/Linux and now it's Linux with a bunch of GNU apps. Arrogance and short sightedness is a bitch like that.

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