Re: The history of the Linux OS

Steven Roberts (strobert@ata-sd.com)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 15:07:57 -0800


"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
> In message <199811250400.UAA16710@bitmover.com>, Larry McVoy writes:
> +-----
> | I'm not sure what the problem is - I have no intent or interest in recreating
> | all the steps between releases, but we have all the released version of the
> | kernels. So what's to prevent from getting the first one, checking it in,
> +--->8
>
> But we don't. 0.99.14, for example, is noticeably missing from the list ---
> and I remember 0.99.14 very well because it was the first kernel that was
> stable enough for production use by most then Linuxers, marred only by small
> issues such as (IIRC) ATI and S3 video cards vs. COM4. And it's right smack
> in the middle of the list of released kernels.
>
Interesting... at first when I saw that 0.99pl14 was missing, I thought
it was the C++ kernel release...

was 0.99pl13 the C++ compiled one then? I remember Linus did it for one
and only rev...

just curious (memory a little foggy...)

Steve

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/