31 Dec
2016
31 Dec
'16
5:30 p.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.
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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.