A Historical Look At The First Linux Kernel 173
LinuxFan writes "KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax," and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings."
No sooner had I finished compiling... (Score:5, Funny)
Official kernel development strategy (Score:5, Funny)
Too bad (Score:5, Funny)
Oh No! (Score:5, Funny)
At least two people agree on 640kB (Score:5, Funny)
Well (Score:5, Funny)
- Bill Gates
Re:5 most important OSS figures (Score:1, Funny)
Embarassing change of context (Score:5, Funny)
Ready? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"Humble beginnings" (Score:2, Funny)
MS had this too ya know.... (Score:2, Funny)
Linus gone wild (Score:3, Funny)
http://kerneltrap.org/files/linus2.gif [kerneltrap.org]
It's too bad about teh Lunix, really (Score:3, Funny)
All these years later, and he's still trying to cludge it together and keep it working. And let's not even talk about security- naming the problems with that would cause a buffer overflow on the forum.
Had Lunis and company written it properly at the start, maybe he wouldn't still be chasing Windows 95's tail lights.
Re:Oh No! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OT: Look at all the low-id's come out! (Score:2, Funny)