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SubjectRe: The history of the Linux OS
    From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)

We are indeed missing a number of historic kernels (before 1.0). If
anyone has them, I would appreciate a copy.

What versions do you have in mind?

I have a

-rw-r--r-- 1 aeb aeb 444413 Aug 17 1992 linux97.taz

(on a xiafs filesystem - good that that is still supported under 2.0 :-)

Checking the contents I find that it is the same as linux-0.97.tar.Z
dated Sep 27, 1992. So, the file dates in the
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
directories are probably not the original ones.

I have 0.99/pl15[a-j], 0.99/pl14[a-z] but from the earlier 0.99pl*
only a few edited by me - no clean copies.
[Am certainly interested in missing fragments.]

But old kernels are fairly well documented.
The remaining fragments of software are more difficult to find.
The oldest binary for libc that I can find is libc2.2.2.
But I have source only since libc-4.4.1.
Any older sources are welcome.

Andries


P.S. I suspect that CDROM manufacturers like Yggdrasil or TransAmerican
or so must have snapshots of fairly old systems - but again perhaps
only binaries?

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