Re: The history of the Linux OS

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:52:54 -0500


As Andries pointed out, the old kernels are actually fairly well
preserved.

What is much less well-preserved is the old original distributions.
That's because they are bigger, and tended to change over time,
sometimes without necessarily having distinct version numbers.

But something which would definitely worth doing is to compile a history
of all of the various distributions, with beginning and ending dates,
when it was the most popular, who was responsible for doing the
distribution, what key feature(s) the distributions introduced, which
distributions were descended from other distributions, etc.

- Ted

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