[oclug] Oldest Linux install?

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:01:08AM -0500, Frank Stratton - VE3YY wrote:
> Now that is old.  As I remember, Linus, went from the low numbers like 0.13
> to 0.95 because he said that he figured he would have most of the bugs out
> and make it stable and release 1.0 so there never was a kernel level like
> 0.50.

That's exactly what it did, it went from 0.13 to 0.95 in a single
bound...  Might even be the same release, renumbered.

> Frank
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:56:39PM -0500, Peter T. wrote:
> > What was your oldest Linux install?
> >
> > Mine was Red Hat 5.1 on a 586. circa 2000-2001.
> 
> April 1992, I think.  That was the earliest Google found...  I think it
> was SLS from about 15 1200k 5.25" floppies downloaded over a 1200 baud
> modem...   Linux 0.13 kernel
> 
> 5 months later I used it to train an artificial neural network to do
> speech recognition for my 4th year project for my undergrad.  That
> process ran at 99.5% CPU usage for two solid weeks to train the neural
> net on a 486DX-33.  Worked like a champ.  Multitasked beautifully even
> then, way better than win98 or mac os-9 didn't years later...
> 
> I even had X working then...
> 
> > Peter Timusk B.Math Just trying to stay linear
> 
> 	slainte mhath, RGB

	slainte mhath, RGB

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