From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762264AbXGLSY6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:24:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754834AbXGLSYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:24:49 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:31139 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754526AbXGLSYs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:24:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JJ8doo5RVsejYNmIeso3AhFv37e4FGqtNuIX9IZt8MTy1D13Wjh9Vm+uy2oIlfFoSzVg++FtzgHtB10fsMz3vhUryd3XIml1F+Zf9Tgxo6mBiaBh8ocrwwYezP13TOba66pPavu9jGr8B7b9zP5r9YhRHJlJEOcPwOPE7ttGVXA= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:24:46 -0700 From: "Ruben Junkie" To: "Lennart Sorensen" Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Story Cc: "Vijayakumar Subburaj" , LKML In-Reply-To: <20070712164057.GC31195@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070712164057.GC31195@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/12/07, Lennart Sorensen 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/ > -- Yo soy el junkie