The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

[jd1008]

On 02/26/2015 01:35 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>
> On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" <jd1008 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > I found
> >https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/ 
> <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/>
> > and
> >https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/ 
> <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/>
> > and
> >http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html 
> <http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html>
> >
> > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases.
>
> People have mentioned having CDs and floppies, but no links so far, so...
>
> Here's some information about running Slackware 1.01 in a virtual 
> machine, complete with floppy image links:
> http:// 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>blog.nielshorn.net 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>/2009/06/ 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>older- 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>slackware- 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>versions-vi 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>/ 
> <http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/>
>
> The earliest CD image I could find is for Slackware 3.2:
> http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-3.2-iso/
>
> From the Red Hat/Fedora side, the earliest floppy image I could find 
> is from Red Hat Linux 4.2:
> http:// 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>archive.download.redhat.com 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>/pub/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>redhat 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>linux 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>/4.2/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>en 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>os 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>/i386/images/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>boot.img 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img>
>
> There's lots of partial content and the root of that URL for earlier 
> releases, but AFAICT RH didn't make floppy images publicly 
> downloadable before then; the directories where they would be seem to 
> be all empty.
>
> The earliest CD images available are for 6.2:
> http:// 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>archive.download.redhat.com 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>/pub/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>redhat <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>linux 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>/6.2/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>en 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>iso 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>/ 
> <http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/>
>
> I guess I'm a real youngster compared to everyone else, because I 
> didn't join the party till a little bit later, when a friend of my 
> dad's (I was really a youngster at the time!) handed me a copy of Red 
> Hat Linux 7 for Dummies complete with CDs in the back cover. 
> (Thankfully he had good choice in friends, had he instead handed me a 
> copy of the also recently released Windows 2000 things might have 
> ended up much differently. :-)
>
> My poor old Gateway couldn't run Windows 98 without blue screening 
> every 5 minutes, but damn if it didn't run that thing flawlessly. (It 
> even made it to Fedora 2 before it finally gave the ghost!) The 
> included copy of Netscape Navigator 4 left much to be desired, but I 
> quickly discovered early milestones of this Mozilla Suite thing which 
> worked much better, despite all the scary warnings Netscape had 
> plastered all over Mozilla.org at the time.
>
> -T.C.
>
>
>
Thank you TC.
I went ahead and downloaded the early slackware.

Cheers,

JD