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 This week in Linux history
 
    Six years ago: The Debian 1.0 release [14]never happens after
    InfoMagic mistakenly puts a broken, development version on its CD as
    "Debian 1.0". The project, instead, goes directly to a 1.1 release.
    
    Five years ago: Debian 1.2 is [15]released. The distribution claims
    848 packages, and 120 active maintainers. Debian releases came a
    little quicker in those days...
    
    Four years ago: Linus Torvalds [16]won the 1997 Nokia Foundation
    Award.
    
    Three years ago ([17]December 17, 1998 LWN): IDC reported that Linux's
    market share rose 212% in 1998, giving it 17% of the server operating
    system market.
    
    Work continued toward the 2.2.0 stable kernel release. Linus,
    meanwhile, [18]addressed the topic of raw I/O in Linux:
    
      Quite frankly, nobody has EVER given me a reason that makes any
      kind of sense at all for supporting raw devices in any other way
      than we already do. Nobody sane uses a disk without a filesystem,
      and the insane people that do I feel we can and should ignore.
      Insanity has a way of dying off over time, when Darvin [sic] starts
      to look into it.
      
    (The 2.4 kernel, of course, includes a Linus-approved raw I/O
    implementation).
    
    The Debian Project [19]adopted its constitution, which describes how
    the project operates. The project was smaller then; all of 86 votes
    were counted in the decision on the constitution. The first project
    leader election began, with Joseph Carter, Ben Collins, and Wichert
    Akkerman running as candidates.
    
    Red Hat, meanwhile, launched its training and certification programs.
    
      The GNOME project aims to emulate what is best about existing
      interfaces. "Microsoft did some things very well, and we're trying
      to learn from them," [Miguel] de Icaza says. At the same time, the
      project seeks to avoid some of Windows' annoying design
      peculiarities. GNOME users, de Icaza promises flatly, will not turn
      off their computers by clicking a button labeled "Start."
      -- [20]Technology Review on GNOME, three years ago.
      
    The Linux Mall [21]announced the availability of the first stuffed
    Tuxes. "A huggable pal to have around, or a great bed partner."
    
    IBM released the first version of Wietse Venema's "Secure Mailer,"
    otherwise known as Postfix.
    
    Two years ago ([22]December 16, 1999 LWN) saw, of course, the initial
    public offering of VA Linux Systems. The company's stock shot up to
    close at almost eight times its (already increased) initial value,
    setting a record which remains unchallenged a year later. It was the
    high point of the Linux stock mania. Two years later, VA's stock
    stands at less than 1% of its first-day peak.
    
      Internet mania reached new levels of frenzy Thursday as investors
      paid huge multiples on an initial public offering, giving a market
      value of almost $10 billion to a tiny company with powerful
      competitors, little revenue and no expectation of earnings in the
      foreseeable future.
      -- [23]New York Times
      
    LWN predicted a flood of Linux-related IPOs to follow. Needless to
    say, things did not work out that way.
    
      VA had indeed gone out on NASDAQ -- and I had become worth
      approximately forty-one million dollars while I wasn't looking.
      Well, that didn't last long. In the next two hours, VA dropped from
      $274 a share to close at $239, leaving me with a stake of only
      thirty-six million dollars. Which is still a preposterously large
      amount of money.
      -- [24]Eric S. Raymond. That didn't last long either.
      
    The Bazaar, a free software conference, was held in New York.
    Attendance was light, and the event has not been repeated. At the
    conference, Miguel de Icaza was awarded the Free Software Foundation
    Award for his work with GNOME.
    
    Bastille Linux 1.0.0 was released. Debian 2.1r4 came out. MandrakeSoft
    proclaimed that Linux-Mandrake 6.1 was Y2K compliant. Stormix released
    Storm Linux 2000.
    
    Linus released development kernel 2.3.33 with the comment: "We're
    obviously not going to have a 2.4 this millenium [sic], but let's get
    the pre-2.4 series going this year, with the real release Q1 of 2000."
    He was flooded by those who claim the millennium wouldn't end for
    another year, and responded:
    
      The fact that our forefathers were Pascal-programmers, and started
      counting from one does not mean that we have to continue that
      mistake forever. We've since moved on to C, and the change from
      1999->2000 is a lot more interesting in a base-10 system than the
      change from 2000->2001.
      
    Of course, there was no no 2.4.0 by the end of the millennium even by
    the reckoning of Pascal programmers...
    
    Linuxcare closed a large investment round.
    
      But Linuxcare wants to get its business in better shape before it
      goes public. The company isn't profitable and won't be for the next
      year as Linuxcare pays for aggressive hiring and expansion, [CEO
      Fernand Sarrat] said in an interview. Shunning the method pioneered
      by Internet companies, Sarrat is focusing on building up the
      business before Linuxcare goes public, instead of using the
      proceeds of an IPO to fund that expansion.
      -- [25]News.com, December 14, 1999
      
    Of course, Linuxcare filed for its IPO just one month later...
    
    One year ago ([26]December 14, 2000 LWN): Amid great fanfare,
    FreeDesktop.org [27]released version 1 of the "extended window manager
    hints specification." This spec was produced as a cooperative effort
    between KDE and GNOME developers.
    
    Great Bridge [28]announced its first boxed version of the PostgreSQL
    database.
    
      While Great Bridge software will be widely distributed at no cost,
      the company will make money by selling value-added support services
      such as technical support, consulting and training. Great Bridge
      offers a suite of technical support packages for corporate
      end-users. Its Premium Support package provides one year of
      unlimited, 24-hour e-mail and telephone support from a dedicated
      engineering team. The Standard Support package includes unlimited
      e-mail support and limited telephone support for one year.
      
    It seemed like a good idea at the time.
    
    NuSphere also [29]announced a set of service offerings, these oriented
    around MySQL.
    
    Linus released [30]2.4.0-test12, which contained an amazing number of
    changes for a kernel that was supposed to be near a stable release.
    
    Conectiva released its port of the Debian apt tool which uses RPM as a
    package manager.
    
    Sun completed its acquisition of Cobalt Networks.
    
      If anyone had told me back then that getting back to embarrassingly
      primitive Unix would be the great hope and investment obsession of
      the year 2000, merely because its name was changed to Linux and its
      source code was opened up again, I never would have had the stomach
      or the heart to continue in computer science.
      -- [31]Jaron Lanier was not impressed.
      
    Section Editor: [32]Jonathan Corbet.
    December 13, 2001
    
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