Reviewing Linux 0.02 and 0.03

August 03rd, 2007 | Category: OS

Continuing their historical series looking at the early Linux kernels, KernelTrap is discussing the 0.02 and 0.03 kernels released in late 1991. Though the actual source cipher has been lost to duration, the spread offers an interesting collection of emails by Linux creator Linus Torvalds about his new operating system, ‘for hackers by a hacker.’ Version 0.02 was the first usable release, gaining the

ability to run programs such as gcc whether compiled on Minix. Version 0.03 fixed buffer-cache issues that made it possible to compile gcc from Linux. Interestingly suitable, at that point Linus thought of Linux as a short-lived project saying, “wait for Hurd whether you want something real. It’s fun hacking it, though (but I’m biased).”

Original post by (Thom Holwerda)

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