History Project on Linux 1
PsiKO
Note, before I begin, please note that this email is in no way technical,
and if you feel the need to flame me or tell me to send myself to
"/dev/null" or any other such places, please don't, your just wasting your
time and the servers resources.
I come from South Africa and am currently involved in a school project in
which we have to track down and interview people about a certain topic. I
have decided to try and do the project on the first public release of the
Linux kernel.
Are there any such people here who were involves in the first release and
would be interested in answering a whole
pile of questions on it and the such?
Please reply to ps...@webonline.co.za if you are interested and willing...
Thanx
PsiKO
aka
Michael Eley
William MacLeod
<Ps...@webonline.co.za> wrote:
> I come from South Africa and am currently involved in a school project
> in which we have to track down and interview people about a certain
> topic. I have decided to try and do the project on the first public
> release of the Linux kernel.
>
> Are there any such people here who were involves in the first release
> and would be interested in answering a whole pile of questions on it and
> the such?
I'll make life easy for you: a magazine called "Linux Journal" did the
same kind of thing a while back. Go find the article they wrote and use
that to further your research. Or get some early code and have a look
through for names.
Regards
William MacLeod
Roger Leigh
> I come from South Africa and am currently involved in a school project in
> which we have to track down and interview people about a certain topic. I
> have decided to try and do the project on the first public release of the
> Linux kernel.
>
> Are there any such people here who were involves in the first release and
> would be interested in answering a whole
> pile of questions on it and the such?
>
> Please reply to ps...@webonline.co.za if you are interested and willing...
You're posting to USENET, so you should read the replies on USENET
too.
I suggest that you start by downloading the original kernel source
from ftp.kernel.org. Look in the source, and see who wrote it. You
could always email Linus himself, but he's probably quite busy! I
suggest that you try contacting the authors identified in the source.
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John Ineson
> Roger Leigh <rl...@york.ac.uk> writes:
>> You're posting to USENET, so you should read the replies on USENET
>> too.
>
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/
'Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up' is anachronistic bullshit.
IMHO.
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ne...@roaima.freeserve.co.uk
> 'Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up' is anachronistic bullshit.
I think the fundamental difference here is "please email me" with an
implied "I don't read usenet", and "please email me and I'll summarise"
with an implied "I'm expecting loads of you to give similar answers,
so let's keep the discussion short and snappy". Of course, without the
"and I'll summarise", one has to infer the former meaning.
Anacronistic? Almost certainly. However, if I offered to summarise I
would do so. If someone else offered to summarise, I would email or post
depending on how I recollected they had responded on usenet in the past.
> IMHO.
Quite.
Chris
John Ineson
> John Ineson <${spam}$@sneakerpimp.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>> 'Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up' is anachronistic bullshit.
>
> I think the fundamental difference here is "please email me" with an
> implied "I don't read usenet", and "please email me and I'll summarise"
Exactly. This is about people who not only cannot be arsed to find their
own solutions, they are too lazy to check back for the ones that other
people provide. There is no way this type of person is going to provide
a summary for the archives.
Selfish, lazy leech => no help from me.
Bill Hay
>In article <wwvy9fo...@rjk.greenend.org.uk>, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>'Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up' is anachronistic bullshit.
>
e-mail replies don't offer to summarise.
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