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Linux Weekly News 2004 Timeline
Ridgelift writes "Linux Weekly News has made their annual 2004 Timeline available free to the general public. " Much happens in the Linux world over the course of a year. 2004 saw ongoing legal and political fights, new distributions, big releases of major applications, a new mode for kernel development, and more. This timeline is our attempt to separate out the most significant developments of the year and present them in a concise and enjoyable format. It continues an annual LWN tradition; it is the seventh in the series.""
This year really wasn't the year for Linux. Maybe 2005? =)
----geppy -
They made it "Free to the general public". Well, what a kind and noble gesture.
IAAL
...has made their annual 2004 Timeline
I wonder what next year's 2004 timeline will look like?
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
Yikes
Check this out. This is a goldmine. The dunk tank.
http://lwn.net/Articles/66669/
Free XBox, PS2
None of that has anything to do with linux. DeCSS has nothing to do with OSS, it has to do with your right to descramble your own DVDs.
Actually, a lot of this list has nothing to do with linux, some just barely have to do with OSS in general, like the DeCSS stuff.
Hell, news on OSS apps like GIMP doesn't have anything to do with linux. I've always used GIMP on Windows.
What does the Sun/MSFT settlement have to do with linux?
I guess without the cruft, the timeline would just be:
January: Kernel version X released
April: Kernel version X.1 released
Novermber: Kernel version X.2 released
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Was anyone besides me expecting to so, and disappointed not to find, an actual timeline, a graphical chart in the form of a line with labeled tic marks demarcating events?
The link is over-billed. I'ts only a chronologically ordered table, not really a timeline.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
The second paragraph of this item from November is my favorite line from 2004.
The revolution will not come like a torrent that sweeps through IT departments, converting the unwashed masses to our ways. No, the revolution will continue slowly and quietly. Take heart that in the coming years, our noble cause shall be well known.
We have continued to infiltrate the server room. We have rekindled the browser war. We have publicly proven that litigation and marketing cannot prevail over quality and enthusiasm. The open source model is reaching more mainstream audiences.
More are beginning to question The Beast and its minions. More companies are understanding our cause. Some are allies while others, envisioning their own demise, are trying to regain a foothold which they ultimately cannot.
It is a quiet night, but in that seeming calm we quietly fight. Slowly we position ourselves, quietly we make our way through it all until one day the opposing few open their eyes to see themselves surrounded.
Take heart, soldiers. We will win. It's only a matter of time.
"The GNU Project celebrates its 20th anniversary."
Guess it's not that GNU then, is it?
The title for the page showing Linus going into the dunk tank? "Linus gets wet".
"KOffice 1.3 is released" - alongside KOfficeSyrup.
Sorry, but I really have nothing useful to contribute. I'm too busy trying to get Gentoo to install on a virtual machine without getting Flagrant Errors.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
For the most part, there wasn't a lot to report on related to Linux in 2004, other than SCO, SCO, SCO. And that was in the first six months.
Ok, I admit this is a plea for any sort of attention to a bug in 2.6.10 but are you able to put yourself in empathy with me here.
Summer: upgrade to 2.6.x, love it
Late Nov: upgrade to 2.6.9, love it
After Christmas: upgrade to 2.6.10 and buy new hardware with 2.6.10 support only
Jan 2005: Find both Vanilla 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 kernels crash after 2 days running (no acpi or preempt). Can't believe it. Can't downgrade as now need the hardware support in 2.6.10. Shocked. Try to file a bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4010
Maybe I didn't do it well but seems there's no one out there to say so. Is anyone out there?
I'm suprised never had anything like this. I'm sure there's something amiss, some mistake.
Now: Computer is turned off.
Tomorrow: -1 troll probably
And this is not a Linux kernel timeline, but an LWN timeline.
Much happens in the Linux world over the course of a year.
Is that so? Who would have thought that could ever happen??
Back in the late '80s and early '90s every year was predicted to be the year that LANs finally exploded. Never happened. A few people here and there put in a LAN, but there was no massive explosion of installations. Then one day someone looked and low and behold everyone had a LAN.
Likewise the linux desktop will not explode overnight. Instead a few companies here and there will get sick of Windows, or need something special that Windows doesn't give, but linux allows them to write. Those companies will install linux. Perhaps not even all at once, just for the few people who need it. Slowly, slowly, slowly, linux will get better while it gets a few wins. Suddenly one day we will look back and see linux everywhere.
Of course on that day *BSD people like me will sigh and go on using our better OS that never gets any press... ;)
You sound like you're in a snit about it.
LWN is a going concern, paying its employees (a pittance, I suspect), ISP, and bandwidth from subscriptions. This is because when LWN announced its demise due to lack of funding, an outcry from readers, with offers of money, caused them to reconsider.
The one-week delay for certain juicy bits is an inducement for the general public to help by subscribing.
If you don't like it, don't read it, and in any case don't complain about how an excellent site stays in business.
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