Saturday, March 14, 2009

Happy birthday Linux kernel!

On March14, 1994, the Linux kernel 1.0.0 was released to a grateful world. As someone who felt stuck on 0.99 just about forever, it was happy dance time.

I pretty clearly needed to get a life, but y'all know that anyway.

3 comments:

alan said...

Downloaded SLS floppy images from BBSes: Check.

Searched for months for one of the three supported video cards for X Windows: Check.

Ah, the "good" old days.

Borepatch said...

Alan, I got mine originally on the box-o-floppy-disks (20 disks, IIRC).

And I had a "fast" 32 kbps Frame Relay connection!

Eagle said...

Debian, folks... Debian.

UUCP connection upstream via PPP, and ftp from mit, dec, etc.

my old addy was decvax!bhjat!bhj

Check the '94 and '95 Yggdrasil books -- you'll find me there, too...