Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Aug 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by LinuxFan
Continuing their historical series looking at the early Linux kernels, KernelTrap is discussing the 0.02 and 0.03 kernels released in late 1991. Though the actual source code has been lost to time, the article offers an interesting collection of emails by Linux creator Linus Torvalds about his new operating system, 'for hackers by a hacker.' Version 0.02 was the first usable release, gaining the ability to run programs such as gcc if compiled on Minix. Version 0.03 fixed buffer-cache issues that made it possible to compile gcc from Linux. Interestingly enough, at this point Linus thought of Linux as a short-lived project saying, "wait for Hurd if you want something real. It's fun hacking it, though (but I'm biased)."
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RE[5]: Wait for Hurd if you want something real...
by dylansmrjones on Sun 5th Aug 2007 14:33
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Seventeen years of development with little to show for it. And based on another project? (The particular project it is based on having changed over the years.)
I don't think that there is *any* other software development project in the same class as the Hurd.