The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

[jd1008]

On 02/26/2015 03:38 PM, alan at clueserver.org wrote:
>> On 02/26/2015 04:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
>>> On 26.02.2015, Jim Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet.
>>> It was on floppy disks. I remember clearly, because I reformatted them
>>> some time ago, in need for empty disks to check an external floppy disk
>>> drive.
>>>
>> I was able to locate the earliest CD iso.
>> It was issued by Yggdrasil.
>> It comes with the iso and a floppy image.
>> Packaged together a tar file.
>> I uploaded it to
>> https://www.sendspace.com/file/yl5fa0
>> because the original URL is apparently too slow to
>> handle large traffic.
> If that turns out to be bad, I have a copy here someplace. (As well as a
> number of OLD versions of Linux. The problem of being a digital packrat.)
>
By all means - if you find it, upload it somewhere and
provide us with the URL.

Cheers,

JD