Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > What is missing is:
> > 
> >  - v0.02 sources
> 
> I think this really is gone. 0.03 was such an improvement on 0.02 that I 
> think what happened was that I literally removed 0.02 (hey, it wasn't 
> historically interesting at the time!). It's not the first time people 
> have wondered about it.
> 
> 0.03 was the first version where you could actually do things under Linux, 
> and I think I could compile etc. I *think* it was released pretty close 
> after 0.02, which made 0.02 appear even more flawed and a brown-paper-bag 
> release.

Could that version be found anywhere?

> >  - v0.10 announcement
> 
> Hmm. That one would be interesting, since the reason for the 0.03->0.10 
> jump was that I was getting so happy with how it was actually working for 
> me (ie able to compile itself under itself). But I don't see it, and it's 
> not on google in the comp.os.minix archives either, afaik.

Anyone out there keeping an archive of those old posts?  Archival sites 
appear to have a black hole during that period.

> >  - v0.99.12 announcement
> 
> Well, the 0.99.12 announcement is found by google.
> 
> 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.announce/browse_thread/thread/8a19289f68a4af35/fe433c9df4b382a5?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#fe433c9df4b382a5
> 
> In general, google groups (search by date and author, and make the group 
> be something like *linux*) is good, I found the above on the first try.

Yeah... Don't know what happened.  I must have found it then because I 
had a file to store it in my data directory, but somehow it was empty.  
Fixed now.


Nicolas