Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-27 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:36 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > I'm pretty sure MCC Interim Linux and maybe TAMU pre-date SLS. According to this, you are correct: http://futurist.se/gldt/ Woogie -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/26/2015 04:11 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote: On 02/25/2015 09:24 PM, jd1008 wrote: I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso re

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/26/2015 03:38 PM, a...@clueserver.org wrote: On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them some time ago, in need for empty d

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 14:38 -0800, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > If that turns out to be bad, I have a copy here someplace. (As well as > a number of OLD versions of Linux. The problem of being a digital > packrat.) But, but, but... What about the two-inch-thick *ix manuals? ;-) -- tim@localho

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 02/25/2015 09:24 PM, jd1008 wrote: > I found > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > and > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ > and > http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html > > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. http://www.ibiblio.org/

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread alan
> > On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >> On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: >> >>> Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. >> It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them >> some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/26/2015 10:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:35:33PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: People have mentioned having CDs and floppies, but no links so far, so... And I meant to mention in my last mail that I THINK (not direct knowledge) that SLS (Soft Landing Sy

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread poma
On 26.02.2015 19:37, jd1008 wrote: > > On 02/26/2015 04:37 AM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: >> Hi >> >> Just to put my own 10 cents worth in here. I went to Manchester >> Computing Centre throughout the 90's. At that time Dr Owen Le Blanc >> was writing some early code for the GNU/Linux kernel. He was

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Fred Smith said: > And I meant to mention in my last mail that I THINK (not direct > knowledge) that SLS (Soft Landing Systems) may have been the first to > ship a complete integrated system, though I think it may have been on > a huge pile of floppies instead of a CDROM. I'm pr

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:35:33PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" <[1]jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I found >>[2] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ >> and >>[3] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-version

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:35:33PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" <[1]jd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I found >>[2] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ >> and >>[3] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-version

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/26/2015 01:35 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" > wrote: > > I found >https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > and >https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" wrote: > > I found > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > and > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ > and > http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html > > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. People have mentio

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk drive. I was

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/26/2015 04:37 AM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Hi Just to put my own 10 cents worth in here. I went to Manchester Computing Centre throughout the 90's. At that time Dr Owen Le Blanc was writing some early code for the GNU/Linux kernel. He was in touch with Linus a lot of the time... http://pe

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/25/2015 09:08 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, jd1008 said: I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases.

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread jd1008
On 02/26/2015 03:59 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 02/26/2015 03:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on diskettes (20 of 'em!) I second that! mine was a slackware CD.. 2.4 ? 1996?? The date is close enou

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote: > Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk drive. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi Just to put my own 10 cents worth in here. I went to Manchester Computing Centre throughout the 90's. At that time Dr Owen Le Blanc was writing some early code for the GNU/Linux kernel. He was in touch with Linus a lot of the time... http://people.man.ac.uk/~zlsiial/ https://en.wikipedia.or

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 26 February 2015 09:22:57 Jim Lewis wrote: > > On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on > >> diskettes > >> (20 of 'em!) > > > > I second that! > > Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. In case > anyo

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/26/2015 03:43 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on diskettes >> (20 of 'em!) > I second that! > mine was a slackware CD.. 2.4 ? 1996?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counte

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Jim Lewis
> On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on >> diskettes >> (20 of 'em!) > > I second that! > Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. In case anyone is interested I still have my original copy of Minix, PC/AT Vers

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: > was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on diskettes > (20 of 'em!) I second that! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Stephen Davies
In the very early days, the only way to get Linux components was by dialup download. There were no "distributions". It was everybody for themselves. If one had an issue, it was easy to email Linus or Alan Cox. I did a few ports in 1992/93 including things like gated and imapd and Alan and/or L

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/26/2015 04:43 AM, Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting jd1008 : I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Thanks for a

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, jd1008 said: > I found > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ > and > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ > and > http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html > > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Linus just does the kernel, n

Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting jd1008 : I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Thanks for any links. was it even on CD? My first slack

The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

2015-02-25 Thread jd1008
I found https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ and https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ and http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html But I cannot find any first CD iso releases. Thanks for any links. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T