30 Dec
2016
30 Dec
'16
11:33 p.m.
I have a ImageMagic CD that I got back in 1994 that I found in my
garage. It has a bunch of versions of linux that aren't on kernel.org.
The 0.99 series, the 0.98 series and what looks like 1.0 alpha pl14
and pl15.
Is anybody here interested in them?
I have fallen out of contact with the Linux folks, so don't know if
anybody on kernel.org would be interested in these. Does anybody care?
Warner
31 Dec
31 Dec
12:01 a.m.
There was a site I encountered in 2007-2008 collecting old Linux distros, but I
haven't been back since
then. I've forgotten its name, but I think that could be remedied easily enough.
I've also got some 1994-
6 Linux CDs - FWLIW, I put an SLS distro on the Bochs site in 2002-3: I don't know
what's happened
since then.
Wesley Parish
Quoting Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>om>:
I have a ImageMagic CD that I got back in 1994 that I
found in my
garage. It has a bunch of versions of linux that aren't on kernel.org.
The 0.99 series, the 0.98 series and what looks like 1.0 alpha pl14
and pl15.
Is anybody here interested in them?
I have fallen out of contact with the Linux folks, so don't know if
anybody on kernel.org would be interested in these. Does anybody care?
Warner
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
5:18 a.m.
There was a site I encountered in 2007-2008 collecting
old Linux distros, but I haven't been back since then.
These two sites come to mind. Definitely worth exploring.
http://www.oldlinux.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/
11:13 a.m.
On 30 Dec 2016 16:33 -0700, from imp(a)bsdimp.com (Warner Losh):
I have a ImageMagic CD that I got back in 1994 that I
found in my
garage. It has a bunch of versions of linux that aren't on kernel.org.
The 0.99 series, the 0.98 series and what looks like 1.0 alpha pl14
and pl15.
Is anybody here interested in them?
I might be colored by the fact that I'm running Linux myself, but I'd
say that those are almost certainly worth preserving somehow,
somewhere. Linux and OS X are the Unix-like systems people are most
likely to come in contact with these days, and preserving their
history seems worthwhile. Linux' is probably easier than that of OS X
at least outside of Apple.
That said, at least the 0.99 series _does_ seem to be available on
kernel.org: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/v0.99/
has what looks like every version from 0.99 proper to 0.99.15. I'm not
finding 0.98 anywhere, though, nor anything like 1.0pl14 (but I do
notice a patchset to 1.0pl15 in the kernel/v1.0 directory). There are
also 0.0x and 0.1x versions there under kernel/Historic{,/old-versions}.
So it's definitely a mixed bag.
I would suggest contacting the kernel.org folks and ask if they are
interested in receiving the versions you have. You just might have
found a little historical treasure trove of early Linux development.
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“People who think they know everything really annoy
those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)
11:30 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Michael Kjörling <michael(a)kjorling.se>
wrote:
On 30 Dec 2016 16:33 -0700, from imp(a)bsdimp.com
(Warner Losh):
v0.98 does seem to be present in this Git repository
<https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux> – with Linus'
commentary, too.
--
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity(a)gmail.com>
I have a ImageMagic CD that I got back in 1994
that I found in my
garage. It has a bunch of versions of linux that aren't on kernel.org.
The 0.99 series, the 0.98 series and what looks like 1.0 alpha pl14
and pl15.
Is anybody here interested in them?
I might be colored by the fact that I'm running Linux myself, but I'd
say that those are almost certainly worth preserving somehow,
somewhere. Linux and OS X are the Unix-like systems people are most
likely to come in contact with these days, and preserving their
history seems worthwhile. Linux' is probably easier than that of OS X
at least outside of Apple.
That said, at least the 0.99 series _does_ seem to be available on
kernel.org: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/v0.99/
has what looks like every version from 0.99 proper to 0.99.15. I'm not
finding 0.98 anywhere, though, nor anything like 1.0pl14 (but I do
notice a patchset to 1.0pl15 in the kernel/v1.0 directory). There are
also 0.0x and 0.1x versions there under kernel/Historic{,/old-versions}.
So it's definitely a mixed bag.
4:52 p.m.
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
I have a ImageMagic CD that I got back in 1994 that I
found in my
garage. It has a bunch of versions of linux that aren't on kernel.org.
The 0.99 series, the 0.98 series and what looks like 1.0 alpha pl14
and pl15.
Isn't everything in the source code controlsystem?
I thought that everything has been integrated in BitKeeper with help from Larry
McVoy. Or are you interested in parts that are not in the kernel?
Jörg
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1 Jan
1 Jan
4:32 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 05:52:45PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
I didn't help with all that, I was pretty butthurt at the time. I've
gotten over that but I'm still butthurt that Git won. It's a really
shitty answer. I can give you guys a writeup I did recently but I don't
want to spam the list.
I'd be 100% OK with BitKeeper not winning if Git was at parity or better
than BitKeeper, but that's not the case. It's trivial to do a BK to
Git exporter, it's really hard to do the other direction, Git records
far less information.
It's pretty much what I predicted back in the early 2000's. If you don't
leave space for commercial companies to make money and pay people to try
and reach for the better answer, you're gonna get mediocre answers. And
here we are.
I have a ImageMagic CD that I got back in 1994
that I found in my
garage. It has a bunch of versions of linux that aren't on kernel.org.
The 0.99 series, the 0.98 series and what looks like 1.0 alpha pl14
and pl15.
Isn't everything in the source code controlsystem?
I thought that everything has been integrated in BitKeeper with help from Larry
McVoy. Or are you interested in parts that are not in the kernel?
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