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DC:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
Yes, i suppose that makes sense, but hey, why cowtow to tradition?

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Because that way ppl will know what you mean

 
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It also jumped from 0.2something or 0.3something right up to 0.95 if i'm right, but i could be wrong. Anybody actually remember it, since i am just remembering numbers out of a book?
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Actually, it went from 0.12 to 0.95. Linus thought it was almost finished, since only networking was left to do. Well, he was wrong   . Networking proved to be a lot of work. Thet ended up using patch levels (the z in x.y.z - the latest kernel in the 2.4-tree is currently at patch level 18) and letters. The last one before 1.0 was 0.99.15Z   .


The first publicly available version was 0.01 btw. Sept. 17 1991 , according to Linus. There were earlier versions, but those were pretty much useless, and therefore not made available yet. Not that 0.01 was usefull   .

MoR's story about version numbers is pretty much complete (as I said, the third is patch level, not 'actual version' - but that's unimportant). However, before 1.0, you use numbers that indicate the completeness of the product. A version 0.40 should be 40% completed, for example.

Why not name your OS Chaox?  

Voidman: 0.8 didn't exist. 0.08 probably did though.

voidmain:
You appear to be correct.  My memory has failed me. I must have run 0.11 and 0.12. I do remember when the kernel went to 0.95 though. And it could have been the various patch levels of that major version that have clogged my memory. In those days you upgraded kernels a couple of times a week with the new patch levels.

I believe it wasn't much after that that the SLS distro came out (you'll probably correct me on that as well). That's when Linux started to get easy.  Then Slackware came out and life was really good.  Then RedHat came out and there was no turning back. Also it appears that there was indeed hard disk support in the very early days, although limited. I remember my first taste was a floppy only copy though in early 1992.

DC:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Also it appears that there was indeed hard disk support in the very early days, although limited. I remember my first taste was a floppy only copy though in early 1992.
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That seems most likely...
It was originally a terminal emulator (Minix - what Linus used - didn't have a decent one), but started to become Linux (a true OS) after he added stuff like HD support (it originally didn't even have FD support). Anyway, he did that before 0.01 I think.

Of course, I wasn't there when it happened, I just read this from a book (co-written by Linus) - so I could be wrong.

choasmaster:
i was thinking about naming it choatix, pronuced kay-ot-tix the ot being pronuced like otter

choasmaster:
has anyone every gotten the 2.5.26 or so kernel's to compile and work correctly, cuase i haven't, i guess i should wait for 2.6 and rebuild whatever i finally name it with the 2.6 headers, instead of building it with the 2.4.18 headers and using a patched 2.4.19/*thank god for gentoo*/

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