Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:24:46 -0700 | From | "Ruben Junkie" <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Story |
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On 7/12/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:57:41PM +0530, Vijayakumar Subburaj wrote: > > My first mail to lkml. > > > > I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0. > > A lot. > > > I have gone through lkml faqs, and some of LDP documents. Thought that > > weekly lkml summary "Kernel Traffic" (http://www.kerneltraffic.org/) > > would be useful, but its not. > > > > Important linux kernel bugs, fixes that were available those bugs. > > Why one fix got chosen over other fixes, and related tradeoffs? > > > > Sorry, I am too lazy to go through entire lkml, or lk usenet postings. > > > > Are there any documents in web? How I should proceed? where I have to > > start with? > > It might be possible to get some overview as to when major things were > added like when PCI support came, when each architecture was added, when > USB, firewire, scsi and various other sub systems got in, when major > replacements were done to the VM system and such. > > Of course I doubt anyone wants to do the work, since the most > interesting thing is what the current kernel supports. > > How about asking what happened from Windows 1.0 to today. How would you > answer that question? Should it also include the history of DOS from > 1.0 to the current version of windows? Should it also include the > history of CP/M? >
It didn't change.... it's crappy now ... crappy then (windows I mean :S)
> It really is a silly question to ask that is much too vague. > > -- > Len Sorensen > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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