Re: The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/26/2015 04:43 AM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> Quoting jd1008 :
> > I found
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
> > and
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/
> > and
> > http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html
> >
> > But I cannot find any first CD iso releases.
> >
> > Thanks for any links.
>
> was it even on CD?

I am pretty sure, there wasn't any.
> My first slackware came from walnut creek on
> diskettes (20 of 'em!)

The very first Linux, I played with, consisted of ca. 4 floppies (IIRC, 
these were published be Linus T.). However, these were very soon 
replaced by floppies from SLS and later from Slackware.

The first Linux on CD, I had, came from S.u.S.E.

Ralf