Re: The history of the Linux OS

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:52:11 +0100 (MET)


Brandon S. Allbery wrote:

>BTW, was anyone else somewhat shocked to discover that apparently nobody has
>a copy of what was then described by some as the "first really usable Linux
>kernel", namely 0.99.14? I may go rooting through my ancient backup tapes
>(if they haven't succombed to bitrot) over the weekend and see if I have an
>0.99.14 tree around still.

Looked into my archives, found neat stuff (names mangled to fit into 8+3
CDrom format):

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 740009 Jun 10 1993 lx09910.tgz
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 793633 Jul 27 1993 lx09911.tgz
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 862003 Sep 20 1993 lx09912.tgz
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 875591 Sep 24 1993 lx09913.tgz
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 1106588 Nov 29 1993 lx09914.tgz
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 1222118 Jan 29 1994 lx09914x.tgz

where shall I upload what?

gert

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