Linux Kernel Story

Linux Kernel Story

[Vijayakumar Subburaj]

My first mail to lkml.

I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0.

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?

-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Vijayakumar Subburaj

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL"

Re: Linux Kernel Story

[Renato S. Yamane]

Vijayakumar Subburaj escreveu:
> My first mail to lkml.

Welcome :-)

> I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0.

 From 1.0 to 2.6.22.1?
Wowwwwwwwwwww

I think that you can read all changelogs available in www.kernel.org. In 
2 years you finish read 2.4 and 2.6 series :-)

Are you try <http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges>?

Regards,
Renato

Re: Linux Kernel Story

[thinkinnight]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:08:52AM -0300, Renato S. Yamane wrote:
> Vijayakumar Subburaj escreveu:
> >My first mail to lkml.
> 
> Welcome :-)
> 
> >I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0.
> 
> From 1.0 to 2.6.22.1?
> Wowwwwwwwwwww
> 
> I think that you can read all changelogs available in www.kernel.org. In 
> 2 years you finish read 2.4 and 2.6 series :-)
> 
> Are you try <http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges>?
> 
  I think this is a good idea to know all the changes!

> Regards,
> Renato
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Re: Linux Kernel Story

[Cédric Augonnet]

2007/7/12, thinkinnight@gmail.com <thinkinnight@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:08:52AM -0300, Renato S. Yamane wrote:
> > Vijayakumar Subburaj escreveu:
> > >My first mail to lkml.
> >
> > Welcome :-)
> >
> > >I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0.
> >
> > From 1.0 to 2.6.22.1?
> > Wowwwwwwwwwww
> >
> > I think that you can read all changelogs available in www.kernel.org. In
> > 2 years you finish read 2.4 and 2.6 series :-)
> >
> > Are you try <http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges>?
> >
>   I think this is a good idea to know all the changes!
>
> > Regards,
> > Renato
> > -

If you have to study some given sub-system, why not, you might have to
look at how this evolved from years to years, that must already be a
huge work from 2.0 to now for any single part of the kernel.
But seriously, if it's already virtually impossible to get a real
picture of the overall kernels, trying to figure out all changes from
1.0 to now, for all subsystems sounds a little illusory. Moreover they
might have just been all rewritten several times since.

But perhaps what Vijayakumar was looking for is more the different
feature that were added within the curse of years (eg : SMP) ?

Regards,
Cédric

Re: Linux Kernel Story

[Lennart Sorensen]

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 really is a silly question to ask that is much too vague.

--
Len Sorensen

Re: Linux Kernel Story

[Ruben Junkie]

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
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Re: Linux Kernel Story

[Tilman Schmidt]

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Vijayakumar Subburaj schrieb:
> I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0.

Why only from 1.0, leaving out the wonderful saga of 0.9, 0.99, etc.?

SCNR
T.

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Re: Linux Kernel Story

[Wander Winkelhorst]

On 7/12/07, Vijayakumar Subburaj <vijayakumar.subburaj@gmail.com> wrote:
> My first mail to lkml.
>
> I would like to know what happened to linux kernel from its 1.0.

It might be interesting to look at this timeline:
http://www.levenez.com/unix/

Which shows when the first linux kernel was released, and a lot more
info (like how in the older days, there were 2 types of linux,
"stable" and "unstable")
It also shows the different influences the various unices had on each
other (like how Linux was inspired by / losely based on Minix)