From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:56:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:56:39 -0400 Received: from nef.ens.fr ([129.199.96.32]:23821 "EHLO nef.ens.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 09:56:38 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:56:46 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200108181356.PAA24216@clipper.ens.fr> From: david.madore@ens.fr (David Madore) In-Reply-To: <20010817204358.38BAB501D7@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: more kernel .01 X-Newsreader: Flrn (0.5.0pre0 - 10/00) To: fattymikefx@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Start-Date: 18 Aug 2001 13:35:20 GMT In-Reply-To: <20010817204358.38BAB501D7@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org tristan in litteris <20010817204358.38BAB501D7@localhost.localdomain> scripsit: > The reason i was hoping to run an old version of the kernel, > .01 or .02(as someone proposed), is so i can use it as a basis > for learning to add on to, compile, and change an os's kernel. Does it have to be Linux? If not, there are several systems which are supposed to be simpler than Linux and pedagogically interesting. For example, VSTa (see on ). It's GPL'ed. Also, if you are interested in history, you might have a look at : the Santa Cruz Organization is offering free source licenses for versions 5, 6 and 7 of Unix (circa 1970). The entire v7 kernel source code, for example is below 20klines (mostly C, and a bit of PDP-11 assembler), including device drivers. You can even find PDP-11 emulators to run the thing and play with it. (But you can't redistribute it.) (If you want something old *and* free-as-in-free-speech, there's ITS. I don't think anyone was able to make it run on modern machines, though. Making a PDP-10 emulator is much harder than for a PDP-11.) Happy hacking, -- David A. Madore (david.madore@ens.fr, http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/ )