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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   03 Jan 2002  18:23:17
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Five years ago January, 1997: The Linux kernel version 2.1.14 running
    natively on the PowerPC platform was released in Beta form.
    
    Three years ago ([14]January 7, 1999 LWN): The 2.2 Linux kernel
    pre-release series began; the stable release was pushing towards
    version 2.0.37. The [15]Linux Kernel Archive mirror system was started
    with two mirror sites. There are now hundreds of Linux kernel archive
    mirror sites all around the world.
    
    Numerous people predicted that Open Source software would be big in
    1999; these predictions turned out to be accurate.
    
    Info World speculated that "Linux will become just another Unix. The
    Internet lost its charm when big business discovered it. The same will
    happen with Linux. Linux will wipe out SCO and Unixware and gain
    ground against NT, but will lose its soul in the process". Well, they
    got the SCO part right, but Linux continues to have almost as much
    soul as James Brown.
    
    Red Hat was getting lots of attention with its corporate expansion and
    potential of being a threat to the Microsoft empire.
    
    The first issue of the [16]Debian Weekly News came on-line; that
    project is still going strong.
    
    Aladdin Ghostscript [17]was released under a GPL license.
    
    Two years ago ([18]January 6, 2000 LWN): Linux survived the Y2K bug
    with a few minor bugs here and there; so did the rest of the world.
    Several Linux distribution vendors came out with some additional Y2K
    bug fixes.
    
    The cracking of the DVD encryption format was big news; Eric Raymond
    wrote a letter to LWN entitled [19]DVDCA and the Big Lie.
    
    The stable kernel was version 2.2.14, which was a bit long in coming.
    The development kernel was version 2.3.35. With Y2K concerns out of
    the way, the Unix Year 2038 bugs were beginning to get a look.
    
    The first of many [20]SEUL/edu Linux in Education reports came out;
    this group continues to produce good information concerning Linux in
    the schools.
    
    Numerous commercial entities announced the open-sourcing of projects;
    among them were InterBase from Inprise, the CompactPCI networking
    package from MontaVista, and several device drivers.
    
    VA Software (formerly VA Linux) introduced the now well-known
    [21]SourceForge site.
    
    Apple announced the roll-out of its Mac OS X, a Free BSD based
    platform.
    
    One year ago ([22]January 4, 2001 LWN): With very little fanfare, and
    in a slipped-release schedule matched only by the Linux kernel itself,
    GIMP 1.2 was released to the masses on Christmas day.
    
    Speaking of the kernel, Linus released Linux 2.4.0-prerelease on
    December 31, 2000. The official 2.4.0 was released on January 4, 2001.
    
      Torvalds said in June 1999 that Linux 2.4 would be done by last
      fall. In May 2000, Torvalds acknowledged that likely it would be
      October 2000 before 2.4 saw the light of day, since developers were
      attempting to cram more new, high-end features into the final
      release. On Oct. 6, at Frankfurt's LinuxWorld, Torvalds was quoted
      as saying Linux 2.4 wouldn't be launched until December at the
      earliest.
      -- [23]News.com
      
    Keith Owens posted a long description of plans to redesign the kernel
    Makefile system. The Makefile system has been redesigned in the last
    year, but the changes have not been incorporated into 2.5 as of this
    writing.
    
    Slackware.com was compromised on December 25th, forcing a shutdown of
    that site. The breakin appeared to have been due to an older version
    of imapd.
    
    Linus Torvalds was named [24]Reader's Digest European of the Year
    2000.
    
      Torvalds had done something remarkable: he had created the kernel
      of a new computer operating system?the brains of a computer which
      controls the hardware and organizes the programs. Not only that, he
      had then given it away free, a decision akin to the Coca-Cola
      company publishing the formula for Coke, or MI5 releasing its
      top-secret files.
      
    Section Editor: [25]Rebecca Sobol.
    January 3, 2002
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [26]1998 In Review
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