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:

  1. alanMarch 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM

    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.

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  2. BorepatchMarch 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM

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

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

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  3. EagleMarch 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    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...

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