Historic Linux File Archive Created

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 8, 2003 @08:00AM from the welcome-to-the-world-of-yesterday dept.

jemagid writes "Ibiblio (nee metalab, nee sunsite) has rummaged through all the old CDs and old FTP archives we could find, to put together a beautiful picture of the early days of the Linux community: Historic Linux. The files include snapshots of the early Linux archives including sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu, and early distributions such as MCC (Manchester Computing Center) and SLS (Softlanding Linux Systems), which were some of the first attempts to make Linux easy to install and use. The early RedHat releases are also included, as is early Suse, Debian, Slackware, and Blade. The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware."

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Re:Obligatory SCO comment by schon · 2003-09-08 08:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

SCO claims ownership of Linux code that includes SMP

No, actually. SCO reps have said in interviews that the alleged infringing code goes back to 2.0, and possibly earlier.
Re:Obligatory SCO comment by garcia · 2003-09-08 08:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

irrelevant. They released Linux kernel code under the GPL until Linux 2.4.x something. Whether they like it or not, they have agreed that anything prior to that will remain under the GPL.
Snapshots are fine... by JasonMaggini · 2003-09-08 08:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...but to really remember stuff, ya gotta go with those mirror-image tattoos.