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Old School Linux Remembered, Parts 0.02 & 0.03

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the turn-back-the-clock dept.

eldavojohn writes "Following our last history lesson of Linux 0.01, the Kernel Trap is talking about the following announcements that would lead to one of the greatest operating systems today. A great Linus quote on release 0.02 (just 19 days after 0.01): 'I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I've enjoyed [sic] doing it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and modify, and I'm looking forward to any comments you might have.'"

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  1. Never use a 1.0 Release by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, in this case it applies even more so.

    Never use a 0.01 Release, especially not in a production environment.

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  2. 15 years later... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and the Hurd is still just around the corner. :(

    1. Re:15 years later... by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Funny

      and the Hurd is still just around the corner. :(

      Yes, but will they port Duke Nukem' Forever to it?

      /P

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    2. Re:15 years later... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

      I made this post three years ago as a gag. The scary part is that it's still as relevant today as it was then...

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    3. Re:15 years later... by jsse · · Score: 4, Funny

      More ironic: the Linux kernel is slowly becoming a hybrid monolithic/micro-kernel. Linux lost its status of being a micro-kernel since kernel 0.1, a mini-kernel; and since kernel 1.0.0, it has become a macro-kernel. Sad thing to see they work toward the wrong way of technology advancement.

      I'm in the progress of releasing a nano-kernel, kernel 0.000001, which could make me the coolest geek alive on earth.

      Excuse me while these two nice gentlemen tie me up on my bed with the nice long sleeves I wear.
    4. Re:15 years later... by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm in the progress of releasing a nano-kernel, kernel 0.000001, which could make me the coolest geek alive on earth.

      Fine, but will it run Linux?

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    5. Re:15 years later... by Gazzonyx · · Score: 4, Funny

      and the Hurd is still just around the corner. :(

      Yes, but will they port Duke Nukem' Forever to it?

      /P

      Well, no... but it will kind of work under Wine-0.99.937.2777 on 3 or 4 AGP cards if you don't mind getting under the hood and, well... find a Slackware or Gentoo user.

      *Ducks*

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  3. Great name by Joebert · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linus "finger me for more info" Torvalds


    Too bad his middle name isn't Connie.
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  4. Re:The earliest Linux Kernel I used was 0.99 by edsyc · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used to have many things stored across 34 floppies. I could never complete the install, though, because disk 33 was always corrupt.

  5. Wrong Logo by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    This article should not have the Linux Tux logo. Tux only came much later. I suggest an egg or something.

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  6. Point update? by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can see he's gotten a little bit better at letting people adjust to the new Kernel point updates.

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  7. Source... by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 2, Funny

    So where is the link to the source for these?

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  8. A post by Bill Gates by kbob88 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ran across this old post from some of my newsgroup archives:

    From: William Gates [email blocked]
    Subject: Costly kernel for IBM PC
    Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
    Date: 5 Oct 81 05:41:06 GMT

    William Henry Gates III

    Do you pine for the nice days of CP/M-1.1, when men were men and wrote
    their own device drivers? Do you have too much money in your pocket? Are
    you much too free to do what you want with your computer? Are you
    finding it frustrating when everything works on CP/M? No more rebooting your
    computer every 10 minutes? Then this post might be just
    for you :-)

    As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I've purchased a version of QDOS for a song
    and I'm busy cocking it up and I'm going to sell it to IBM (suckers) for their
    new PC. It has finally reached the stage where it's completely unstable and
    most of the cooler things in CP/M have been removed.
    I am willing to put out the binaries, for a price, for wider distribution. It is
    just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully
    run BASIC/lunar-lander/COMMAND.COM etc under it (oh boy!).

    Sources for this pet project of mine are all mine mine mine! Unless you talk
    to Tim Paterson from SCP. Full kernel source is most definitely not provided, as
    I have swiped a lot of code from CP/M and QDOS, and anywhere else I could find it.
    The system is able to compile "as-is" on alternating Tuesdays and when the moon is
    full or on a spring tide, and has been known to work. At least once. Heh.
    Sources are locked away in my underground lair, I mean a shack I just bought in a
    small town in Washington called Redmond.

    I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". The Amiga will be
    out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
    CP/M and the Apple ][. Well, this is a program for business people by a businessman.
    It's been real work and I expect to get paid for it!
    Plus hackers and students can't really create anything worthwhile.
    I'm going to hire really smart kids who don't know jack about computers
    and give them a lot of stock options. It won't matter if they create shit.
    We'll market the crap out of this thing! Once I get the hardware vendors to bundle it,
    we're golden! It is the beginning of my plan to dominate the world!
    Muwhahahaha! If you have any comments, please direct them to the guy
    over there holding the chair in a threatening manner.

    I'm also interested in hearing from anybody who has written any of the
    utilities/library functions for CP/M. I'd like to steal them, I mean embrace/extend/extinguish,
    I mean purchase them for a song, so I can add them to the system. If you
    send it me, it becomes mine! And I'll patent it! Drop me
    a line if you are willing to let me use your code.

                                    Bill

    PS. to STEVE BALLMER! I'm unable to get through to you, and keep getting
    "forward error - hermanmiller unknown domain" or something. I think I've got
    a job for you.

    PPS. to the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto -- I'm going to bury you guys!
  9. Re:It's too bad about teh Lunix by Target+Practice · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I can tell you ARE experienced thanks to your incorrect usage of "its" and "your".

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  10. OK, be honest... how many of you tried it? by iroll · · Score: 5, Funny
    You can mail me for more info. "finger torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi"
    might tell you something too.

    computer:~ iroll$ finger torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi
    [kruuna.helsinki.fi]
      [Your machine computer.ph.ph.cox.net does not run identd]
    [(retval = -1, errno = 145). Please ask your manager to set it up.]
    Login name: torvalds In real life: Linus Torvalds
    Directory: /h/9/tkol/torvalds Shell: /bin/tcsh
    Never logged in.
    Mail last read Sat Feb 1 15:12:10 2003
    No Plan.
     
    Login name: Xtorvald In real life: Linus Benedict Torvalds
    Directory: /h/3/tkol/torvalds Shell: /bin/tcsh
    Never logged in.
    No unread mail
    No Plan.
    computer:~ iroll$
    All it tells me is that he hasn't checked his email in 4 and a half years :P

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  11. Re:The Linux alternate history game... by RiffRafff · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Even in 1990 the market for usability disasters was just not that big."

    Then please explain Windows 3.0.

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