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 This week in Linux history
 
    Four years ago Pacific HiTech, Inc. [15]released TurboLinux 1.0.
    
    Three years ago ([16]August 13, 1998 LWN): Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond,
    Ian Murdock, and Tim Sailor announced the formation of the Open Source
    Initiative. The OSI's job was to police the use of the "Open Source"
    trademark and to promote open source in general. Since then Mr. Perens
    left in anger, the trademark application was denied, and the OSI seems
    to be dormant (the [17]"what's new page" on the OSI web site was last
    updated in July, 1999). In fact, we're told that the OSI is more
    active than it appears, but there isn't much going on there that
    reaches the public eye.
    
    The formation of the OSI was greeted with a great deal of criticism
    and anger, and there are certainly many who do not lament its fall
    from prominence. But the OSI did play a useful role in advocating open
    source, and in keeping early adopters of the term honest. An
    [18]article in Upside that week explained it well:
    
      But to a large extent the new visibility of open source is due to a
      clever marketing strategy on the part of Torvalds and his
      compadres--and a new willingness to talk the language of the
      corporation. These days, open source advocates talk less about
      freedom than about reliability--pointing out that when source code
      is opened up to the masses, the masses tend to locate and eliminate
      bugs very quickly.
      
    The OSI was the embodiment of that marketing strategy.
    
    Richard Stallman [19]called for free documentation to accompany free
    software.
    
      Please spread the word about this issue. We continue to lose
      manuals to proprietary publishing. If we spread the word that
      proprietary manuals are not sufficient, perhaps the next person who
      wants to help GNU by writing documentation will realize, before it
      is too late, that he must above all make it free.
      
    Since then, the amount of free documentation available has expanded
    greatly - even if it still is not enough. Publishers no longer panic
    at the idea of making manual content free. Progress has been made.
    
    The development kernel release was 2.1.115; Linus [20]announced a hard
    code freeze with this release. This freeze proved less than firm,
    however, and the 2.2 stable release turned out to be more than five
    months away. The stable kernel release, meanwhile, remained at 2.0.36.
    
    Two years ago ([21]August 12, 1999 LWN): The second LinuxWorld
    Conference and Expo was held this week; see [22]LWN's coverage of the
    event if you are curious.
    
    But the big news, of course, was the successful completion of Red
    Hat's initial public offering of stock. The actual event caused yet
    another round of trouble for those participating in the community
    offering, since a last-minute raise in the IPO price required a
    reconfirmation of interest. Many of the participants, who were at the
    conference, had a hard time doing that, though just about everybody
    got in before it was done.
    
    The stock shot up to a (split-adjusted) price of $26, which seemed
    amazingly high at the time. The real significance of the IPO was to
    mark Linux as a truly interesting business phenomenon. Two years
    later, with the Linux stock frenzy behind us, Linux remains more vital
    and interesting than ever. Even if the same can not be said for Red
    Hat's stock.
    
    Andover.Net announced the acquisition of [23]FreshMeat this week.
    Andover.net (and Freshmeat) were later acquired by VA Linux.
    
    The development kernel was 2.3.13; the long-awaited 2.2.11 stable
    kernel release also came out this week.
    
    Red Flag Linux, a high-profile Chinese distribution, was [24]announced
    this week. The newly-renamed Lineo announced its Embedix distribution.
    
    Dell announced they would start selling Linux desktop boxes. Two years
    later, of course, Dell has just announced that it has had enough of
    desktop Linux for now.
    
    One year ago ([25]August 10, 2000 LWN): IBM [26]announced a
    Linux-powered wristwatch, which commanded a great deal of attention.
    [27][The Linux watch] The world loves a cool gadget, and this one
    certainly did qualify. Click on the image to the right for a picture.
    
    DefCon attracted over 5000 people. Forbes [28]noted the heightened
    presence of members of the CIA, Department of Defense and the NSA.
    Their mission ... to hire hackers. That seems a far better reason for
    law enforcement to be at DefCon. (This year's DefCon was where the
    arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov happened.)
    
    The 2.4.0-test3 release of the Linux kernel included the surprising
    addition of the Journaling Flash Filesystem (JFFS), which was not
    slated to go into the kernel until later. It seems Linus merged it by
    mistake. Once in, JFFS did not cause any problems so it was left in.
    
    The Linux Test Project is [29]one year old.
    
    LinuxWorld seems to be moving forward as the years go by. While the
    1999 LinuxWorld was held this week (see above), the 2000 LinuxWorld
    was still a week away, and the 2001 LinuxWorld is still over two weeks
    away. Even though LinuxWorld was still a week away, the commerce page
    was already swelling with announcements about all the cool products
    that would be on display.
    
    Stormix launched Storm Linux 2000. One year later...oh well...
    
    Those were the good old days, when VA Linux still sold hardware.
    [30]ZDNet wrote:
    
      Do you need a workstation? And we mean, an honest-to-goodness,
      take-no-prisoners, kick-butt Unix workstation? Then you should be
      looking at VA Linux Systems' tiger shark of a system: the VA Linux
      420.
      
    Section Editor: [31]Rebecca Sobol.
    August 9, 2001
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [32]1998 In Review
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    Linux (R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
 
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