Where can I find the first version of the Linux operating system?

Question

Can someone tell me where I can find the source code, Linus Torvalds shared with the hackers. I thought this would be a great place to learn operating systems.

Answer 1

This was discussed on KernelTrap. There is a good historical discussion, complete with release notes and mailing lists .

A related article comes bundled with this gem, which undoubtedly looked like Linus after the release:

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For a discussion, see here . For the full version of Linux 0.01, download this and verify it with this signature .

Answer 2

If you want to take a good look at the history, you can use the Dave Jones Linux-History Git repository , which includes all versions (at least all versions that still exist, unfortunately, some versions from 0.99 were lost forever ) from 0.01 to 2.4.0. There is another story repository from Thomas Gleixner that covers 2.4.0 to 2.6.12, and, of course, everything from version 2.6.12 is available in the Linus Git repository . Linus also has a repository that contains the import import of the BitKeeper CVS repository from 2.5.0 to 2.6.12.

You can use the Git graft function to glue these repositories together to get a single view of the whole story. There are also various scripts floating around that try to make these repositories even more accurate, like this one .

Answer 3

kernel.org is the repository for the Linux kernel. Here is a historical section with really old code: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/

I'm not sure if old Linux code is the best way to learn about the OS. For starters, this is not an OS, it's just the kernel. Look at Minix, it would be more interesting, it was created from scratch for educational purposes.