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Linux Archive, Now By Date

Posted by timothy on from the yeoman's-effort dept.

RobotWisdom writes "Ibiblio's historic archive for Linux, linked recently, offers lots of old distros, but the dates aren't obvious. I went through and dug out what dates I could for my timeline, but couldn't find any date for several." Robot Wisdom managed to collect an impressive list; read on below for the result.

" The ones I got:

1993: 02Aug: SLS Linux [distro] [more]
1994: 29Jan: Debian version 0.91 [distro]
1994: 05Feb: Slackware 1.1.2 [distro] [more]
1994: Marc Ewing begins the Red Hat GNU/Linux distro [1.0] [more]
1994: 30Mar: MCC Interim 1.0+ [distro]
1994: Apr: SuSE Linux [beta distro]
1994: Oct: Xdenu linux [distro]
1994: 06Nov: SunACM ftp-archives [snapshot] SunSite [snapshot]
1995: Mario Valenti's Mini-linux [distro]
1995: 06Nov: JE linux 0.95 (Japanese extensions) [distro]
1995: 08Dec: BLADE 0.3 for Digital Alpha [distro]
1996: Jan: MIPS port [archive]
1996: 24Apr: Jurix linux [distro]
1996: 17Jun: Debian 1.1 for i386 [distro]
1996: 29Sep: MIT ftp-archives [snapshot] SunSite [snapshot]
1996: 30Sep: dilinux (drop-in for DOS systems) [distro]
1996: 07Oct: TSX-11 ftp-archives [snapshot]

If anyone can supply dates for those I missed (mainly early ports), please use the 'Suggestions' box at the bottom of my timeline page."

9 comments

  1. Timeline not yet updated by RobotWisdom · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apology-- because of connection problems, the online version of my timeline doesn't include the new entries yet. Also, my host may be Slashdotted pretty quickly so here's the Google cache

  2. SW by tsa · · Score: 1

    Some digging on the slackware site brings up the following dates:

    SW 7.0 released Tue, 2 Nov 1999
    SW 8.0 released Sun, 1 Jul 2001
    SW 8.1 released 2002-06-18
    SW 9.0 released 2003-03-19

    Unfortunately it doesn't go back further.

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    1. Re:SW by foonf · · Score: 3, Informative

      Based on changelogs here, here and here , plus your dates, I've dug up all the release dates from 1.1.1 to 9.0 (and 7.1 is just off of their web site)

      1.1.1 1993-10-12
      1.1.2 1994-02-05
      1.2 1994-03-19
      1.2.0.2 1994-04-15
      1.2.0.3 1994-04-21
      2.0.0 1994-07-01
      2.0.1 1994-09-18
      2.0.2 1994-10-18
      2.1 1994-10-31
      2.2 1995-03-21
      2.3 1995-05-10
      3.0 1995-08-24
      3.1 1996-07-03
      3.2 1997-02-17 (the first distro I ever used)
      3.3 1997-07-11
      3.4 1997-10-14
      3.5 1998-06-09
      3.6 1998-10-28
      3.9 1999-03-10
      4.0 1999-03-17
      7.0 1999-11-02
      7.1 2000-06-22
      8.0 2001-07-01
      8.1 2002-06-18
      9.0 2003-03-19

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    2. Re:SW by SuperFrink · · Score: 1

      From http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php ( google archive ):

      From: Patrick J. Volkerding (bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
      Subject: ANNOUNCE: Slackware Linux 1.00
      Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
      Date: 1993-07-16 17:21:20 PST

      The Slackware Linux distribution (v. 1.00) is now available for
      anonymous FTP.

  3. Missing item from timeline... by MarkGriz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe SCO can supply the exact date their code was stolen and added to Linux.

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  4. Dates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...but couldn't find any date for several.

    Don't worry, I'm sure most Slashdotters have trouble finding dates.

  5. Timeline finally updated by RobotWisdom · · Score: 1

    Finally got thru and fixed it.

  6. Check out the full Debian release history by molo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Debian release history.

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