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Ron Guye

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May 19, 2003, 12:54:58 AM5/19/03
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I am embarrassed to ask this question because I'm asking it for reasons that
only have to do with vanity.

Is there a site, or group, that has information about Linux's first year?

I ran linux for the first time in December of 1991 (maybe November) and I
was curious how many people were running linux in 1991?

Thanks.


P.S. I'll never forget what a thrill it was to download. It was the first
time I ever "ran" a computer in another country (ftp to funic.funet.fi) AND
bounced information off a satellite! btw: I still pronounce linux with a
long I because for so long I was the only person I talked to (via sound
waves) that ran it. :)

Steve Ackman

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May 18, 2003, 3:31:32 AM5/18/03
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On Sun, 18 May 2003 20:54:58 -0400, Ron Guye <eyu...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Is there a site, or group, that has information about Linux's first year?
>
> I ran linux for the first time in December of 1991 (maybe November) and I
> was curious how many people were running linux in 1991?

Not I. Commodore 64 was still on my desk until June
of '92, at which time I got a 386SX-20 with a whopping
WHOLE MEGABYTE of memory... still not enough to run
Linux though.



> I still pronounce linux with a
> long I because for so long I was the only person I talked to (via sound
> waves) that ran it. :)

Of course. Linux rhymes with Linus... no matter
what language you say it in.

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ynotssor

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May 18, 2003, 7:30:53 AM5/18/03
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"Ron Guye" <eyu...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Is there a site, or group, that has information about Linux's first year?

You'll probably want to explore several of the results at
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22history+of+linux%22


tony

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Sybren Stuvel

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May 18, 2003, 9:48:44 AM5/18/03
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Ron Guye enlightened us with:

> btw: I still pronounce linux with a long I because for so long I was
> the only person I talked to (via sound waves) that ran it. :)

And that is the way that Linus pronounces it himself. I would say it's
the correct way. All the 'Linnux'-with-a-short-i folks sound so weird...

Sybren
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scorpion de rooftrouser

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May 19, 2003, 9:32:16 AM5/19/03
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well now i'm confused on the pronounciation. phoenetically is it:

Lynux

or

Linux

?

i know some people use the two above options for Linus as well tho

* Steve Ackman <st...@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com> [2003-05-18 03:31]:

Bit Twister

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May 19, 2003, 12:05:24 PM5/19/03
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On Mon, 19 May 2003 09:32:16 GMT, scorpion de rooftrouser wrote:
> well now i'm confused on the pronounciation. phoenetically is it:


Why not hear the guy who created and named it, say it's name

try playing the sample.au

Do a locate sample.au to find the file on the disk.

You may have to run updatedb as root to build the
file location database.

This is a Mandrake 7.1 example:
locate sample.au
/usr/share/harddrake/sample.au
/usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au

cat /usr/share/harddrake/sample.au > /dev/audio

or

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/

and play the links at the bottom of the pag.

Wilbur Goltermann

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May 20, 2003, 9:45:40 PM5/20/03
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Ron Guye wrote:

Ron,

I get the following information from video interviews conducted with Richard
Stallman, Eric Raymond, Michael Tieman and Linus Torvalds which are compiled
into a movie which documents the entire Open Source/Free Software movement,
and titles "Revolution OS"

1. Linus Torvalds said that he pronounces his name like Leenus
(long e), but
now that he is in America, he is perfectly happy with Linus (where
the "in"
is pronounced as it would be in the word pin). He states also that
Linux is
always pronounced Linooks - the i is short and the ux is pronounced
like
ooks in books. So if you connect the words pin and books like
"pinbooks",
remove the b and replace the p with l, you have linooks which is the
correct
pronunciation.

In In August 25, 1991 Linus posted the following message on the MINIX news
group:

From: torv...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25....@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and
gcc(1.40),and
things seem to work.This implies that I'll get something practical
within a
few months, andI'd like to know what features most people would
want. Any
suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded
fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably
never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's
all I have :-(.

Linux version 0.01 was released in mid September 1991, and was put on the
net.

Linux 0.02 came on October 5th, with the following post:

From: torv...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
Message-ID: <1991Oct5.0...@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and
wrote their
own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to
cut your
teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you finding
it
frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-nighters to
get a
nifty program working? Then this post might be just for you :-)
As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the
stage where
it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want), and
I am
willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is just
version
0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully run
bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it. Sources for
this pet
project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) in the
directory
/pub/OS/Linux. The directory also contains some README-file and a
couple of
binaries to work under linux (bash, update and gcc, what more can
you ask for
:-). Full kernel source is provided, as no minix code has been used.
Library
sources are only partially free, so that cannot be distributed
currently. The
system is able to compile "as-is" and has been known to work. Heh.
Sources to
the binaries (bash and gcc) can be found at the same place in
/pub/gnu.

Linux version 0.03 came out a few weeks later and version 0.10 was available
in source form in December 1991. This was a frightfully minimal version
which didn't even have a login, but booted directly into the bash shell.

Beyond this I don't believe that the first binary distros became available
until sometime in late 1994.

I hope this fills in some holes in your history.

By the way, Revolution OS is available on a DVD from www.thinkgeek.com for
about $25.

Sincerely,


Wilbur Goltermann

Ron Guye

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May 21, 2003, 1:16:31 AM5/21/03
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Thank you, Sir.

That was a very informational post and I appreciate your taking the time to
pen it.

I am unsure about one of the statements you made:

"Linux version 0.03 came out a few weeks later and version 0.10
was available in source form in December 1991. This was a
frightfully minimal version which didn't even have a login, but
booted directly into the bash shell."

I know I was running Linux by Christmas 1991, but the version I had booted
into 10 login ttys each reachable through the Shift-F# keys. (I'm still
looking for the floppies so I can get an exact date.)

Thanks again for your reply.

Ron

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