From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:45:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Paul Mundt , Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , lkml To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 23 22:45:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ID4mn-0000Z3-6I for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:45:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934914AbXGWUpT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:45:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933068AbXGWUpR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:45:17 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:28652 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934880AbXGWUpN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:45:13 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JLN0042HGBBVK90@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca>; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:45:11 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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