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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2005-07-06
>>I really wish that the Linux kernel team would take a week off to finish the Hurd for them.<<
And Hurd would be based on which kernel this time?
At first they were based on Mach, then L4 then ... then I stopped reading about the Hurd because if they are not able to choose one kernel and focus on it, they'll never finish their project.