The earliest release of Linux by Linus Torvalds

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 01:35:33PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>    On Feb 25, 2015 8:25 PM, "jd1008" <[1]jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    >
>    > I found
>    >[2] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>    > and
>    >[3] https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/
>    > and
>    >[4] 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...

I have (I'm sure I do, though I don't have it in my hand at this second)
a CD containing Slackware 2.1, which comes with a 1.1.59 kernel (1.1.59
being a development, not production, kernel--but it ran fine for me for
2 or 3 years before I acquired a RH 3.x or maybe it was 4.x.)

I ran it on my screaming 40 Mhz AMD 386 whitebox system where it ran
very nicely.

> 
>    Here's some information about running Slackware 1.01 in a virtual
>    machine, complete with floppy image links:
>    [5]http://[6]blog.nielshorn.net[7]/2009/06/[8]older-[9]slackware-[10]ve
>    rsions-vi[11]/
> 
>    The earliest CD image I could find is for Slackware 3.2:
>    [12]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:
>    [13]http://[14]archive.download.redhat.com[15]/pub/[16]redhat[17]/[18]l
>    inux[19]/4.2/[20]en[21]/[22]os[23]/i386/images/[24]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:
>    [25]http://[26]archive.download.redhat.com[27]/pub/[28]redhat[29]/[30]l
>    inux[31]/6.2/[32]en[33]/[34]iso[35]/
> 
>    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.
> 
> References
> 
>    1. mailto:jd1008 at gmail.com
>    2. https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/
>    3. https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/
>    4. http://draconux.free.fr/os_dev/linux0.01.html
>    5. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>    6. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>    7. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>    8. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>    9. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>   10. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>   11. http://blog.nielshorn.net/2009/06/older-slackware-versions-vi/
>   12. http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-3.2-iso/
>   13. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   14. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   15. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   16. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   17. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   18. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   19. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   20. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   21. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   22. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   23. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   24. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/4.2/en/os/i386/images/boot.img
>   25. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   26. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   27. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   28. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   29. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   30. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   31. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   32. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   33. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   34. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/
>   35. http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/

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