Re: The history of the Linux OS

Hans-Joachim Baader (hans@grumbeer.inka.de)
Mon, 23 Nov 98 21:48 MET


In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981123135439.11943B-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> you write:
> > Is there a note about which is the oldest kernel version one can
> > actually compile using recent tools (gcc-2.7.2+, binutils-2.8+,
> > make-3.7x+)?
>
>I havenae had a look, sorry...

1.0.9 is compilable with some patches.

I have created a "mega-patch" that contains all the patches to 1.0.9
I'm aware of. This kernel actually did run on my Pentium notebook,
without PCMCIA though...

I should perhaps put it on my web page to give it wider testing...

>
> >> 1.2.0 through 1.2.13
>
> > I once had 1.2.13pl9 and pl10 for m68k Amigas. I'm not sure
> > whether these pl releases were official kernels which had *then*
> > m68k patches applied to them.

I have all kernels since 0.99 in case someone needs them ;-)

> > I also once had at least one kernel which had PATCHLEVEL= or
> > SUBLEVEL= set to "99" in the Makefile. Not sure which version
> > this actually was (it was >=1.2.x), but I remember that the
> > numbers in its tar filename mentioned a slightly different
> > version. Maybe a lookup in the kernel archive could help.

Probably 1.99.x, aka 2.0pre

hjb

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