Linux 0.10, How Linux Became Usable

August 11th, 2007 | Category: OS

KernelTrap offers an informative look back in duration at the November 1991 release of the 0.10 Linux kernel, continuing their historical series of articles about the early beginnings of Linux. fairly entertaining is a quote from Linus Torvalds talking about when he accidentally deleted the Minix partition that he was developing Linux from, causing him to build Linux usable for increasingly than just reading and posting to newsgroups. The write-up additionally discusses the creation

of the linux-activists mailing list, offering browsable archives of that first Linux discussion forum, full of interesting gems. And finally it describes the first Linux distribution, MCC Interim, which was created and used by the University of Manchester to teach C programming and UNIX.

Original post by (Thom Holwerda)