Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 11th Aug 2007 20:46 UTC, submitted by anonymous
KernelTrap offers an informative look back in time at the November 1991 release of the 0.10 Linux kernel, continuing their historical series of articles about the early beginnings of Linux. Quite entertaining is a quote from Linus Torvalds talking about when he accidentally deleted the Minix partition that he was developing Linux from, causing him to make Linux usable for more than just reading and posting to newsgroups. The article also discusses the creation of the linux-activists mailing list, offering browsable archives of that first Linux discussion forum, full of interesting gems. And finally it describes the first Linux distribution, MCC Interim, which was created and used by the University of Manchester to teach C programming and UNIX.
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Linux was still light and efficient software at this stage, despite its very alpha stability and functionality -- not even 2500 lines. (I didn't know that it had jumped from 0.03 to 0.10 though -- I thought that 0.04 through 0.09 were just lost as trivialia or something.)
Hmm. Gives me the idea for a crazy project...
Auto-dialing a *hard drive*? That is a goof of epic proportions -- and apparently, if it stirred him to develop Linux, it was the kind of goofs epics are made of.