This is just a random note to let people know that today is actually
one of the core 30-year anniversary dates: 0.01 was uploaded Sept 17,
1991.
Now, that 0.01 release was never publicly announced, and I only
emailed a handful of people in private about the upload (and I don't
have old emails from those days), so there's no real record of that.
The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I
suspect.
Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates,
not the actual creation of the tar-file, but it does seem to have
happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was
technically a couple of hours ago.
Just thought I'd mention it, since while unannounced, in many ways
this is the true 30th anniversary date of the actual code.
Linus
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 01:02:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This is just a random note to let people know that today is actually
> one of the core 30-year anniversary dates: 0.01 was uploaded Sept 17,
> 1991.
Congratulations! Here's to 30 more years of Linux! :)
> Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates,
> not the actual creation of the tar-file, but it does seem to have
> happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was
> technically a couple of hours ago.
Those who want to see what 0.01 looked like can grab it from here:
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/linux-0.01.tar.gz
Congratulations again,
Konstantin
On 13:02 Fri 17 Sep 2021, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>This is just a random note to let people know that today is actually
>one of the core 30-year anniversary dates: 0.01 was uploaded Sept 17,
>1991.
>
>Now, that 0.01 release was never publicly announced, and I only
>emailed a handful of people in private about the upload (and I don't
>have old emails from those days), so there's no real record of that.
>The only record of the date is in the Linux-0.01 tar-file itself, I
>suspect.
>
>Alas, the dates in that tar-file are for the last modification dates,
>not the actual creation of the tar-file, but it does seem to have
>happened around 7:30pm (Finnish time), so the exact anniversary was
>technically a couple of hours ago.
>
>Just thought I'd mention it, since while unannounced, in many ways
>this is the true 30th anniversary date of the actual code.
>
> Linus
Cool ! Thanks a bunch!
Bhaskar