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Is the orignal Linux still in proudction, and if so where can I get it? If not, where can I get the last version of it?
If you mean with the "original" Linux a pretty outdated kernel:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
just out of curiosity, why?
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What do you mean by "orignal linux"? The First linux release? (the oldest archived one is v1.0 i think) It can be found at kernel.org as Guido said.
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you could o so far as to say the "original" linux was minix......!
AFAIK the FreeBSD project started early 1993 whereas Linus released v0.02 of the linux kernel in 1991.
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But there was 4.4 BSD even before that...
Just to make it clear, linux was never based on the minix code. It was written because minix sucked (and still does).
So the original linux wasn't BSD or minix, it was Linux... V0.01 perhaps...And look at the GNU people, their system (GNU operating system) is still not able to work correctly. Good luck to them though :)
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Ahhhhh!!! Pardon the interruption here, but what are you talking about?
If you take a quick look, 3/4 of what you (or anybody else for that matters) calls linux, is GNU.
Your utils are gnu, libc is gnu, gcc is... you got it, GNU, and ....
Linux is just a kernel, and nothing else. If by gnu you meant HURD, the gnu kernel, yes not yet working very well. But is almost
there.
As per the original question, look a bit more in google, there was a site not too long ago, that still had linux 0.96. The first real usable version.
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By GNU, I mean the GNU operating system, ie HURD (a set of processes running on top of the Mach microkernel) and the GNU utilities.
The aim of the GNU project was to create the GNU operating system, but there was one thing they could not finish - the kernel. Just when Linux (the kernel) was stable enough that it could be used with the GNU utilities to make a "A linux system". Now thats what we are using...
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An operating system is traditionally a kernel, shell, and basic utilities. The GNU has contributed significantly to the last two. No one can take all the credit for Linux, OS or kernel, not even Linus himself. It is clearly a diverse effort by the GNU Project, Linux Torvalds and kernel developers, and the community at large.
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Aahz's law
The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.
"I think in this thread, we have a question assuming wrong information. Therefore a special case of Aahz's law.
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Ditto!!!
Guess that in a sense we are all right and wrong. We will go back to 1986 an start discussing if Mach is a kernel a microkernel or what... and doesn't matter what steven jobs has to say...
Back to the original post. For the kernel just go herehttp://www.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/
They start at 0.95 or so. It would be fun to have a couple of them just to tinker around and follow the evolution.
Gotta get rid of some mp3's ... :-)
Have fun!
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IMHO if it wasn't for linux's big brother unix, it may never have existed at all, well not in the form it is now.
http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
If you read through the timeline you will find a few references to linux in there.
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Having just re-read the original post, yes the original linux is still in production. It is up to version 2.4.23 with v2.6 due to come out soon(ish). You can download it from www.kernel.org.
If you are really interested, I have uploaded a couple of v0.01 files for you:
www.loopcoms.com/download/linux-0.01.tar.gz
www.loopcoms.com/download/RELNOTES-0.01
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