Re: The history of the Linux OS

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:58:31 +0000 (GMT)


Hi Johnny.

>> I've just had a look at the SunSite-UK mirror thereof, and note
>> the following kernel tarballs thereon, in various directories:

> Is there a note about which is the oldest kernel version one can
> actually compile using recent tools (gcc-2.7.2+, binutils-2.8+,
> make-3.7x+)?

I havenae had a look, sorry...

>> 1.2.0 through 1.2.13

> I once had 1.2.13pl9 and pl10 for m68k Amigas. I'm not sure
> whether these pl releases were official kernels which had *then*
> m68k patches applied to them.

> I also once had at least one kernel which had PATCHLEVEL= or
> SUBLEVEL= set to "99" in the Makefile. Not sure which version
> this actually was (it was >=1.2.x), but I remember that the
> numbers in its tar filename mentioned a slightly different
> version. Maybe a lookup in the kernel archive could help.

Nodz...

> Do you plan to archive non-x86 kernels, too? Sometimes their
> evolution was interesting, too (especially the older/first
> ports).

I wasnae actually planning on archiving anything yet, as I just don't
have any spare disk space. However, something along the lines of a CVS
archive with all the kernel sources and official patches in order
might not be a bad idea...

Best wishes from Riley.

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