KernelTrap - historical

Quote: Linux GPL'd

Jeremy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:43:13 +0000

"I've decided to change the copyright to have the same set of rules as the GNU copyleft - I got some mail asking about it, and I agree."

Quote: Implemented From Scratch

Jeremy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:55:13 +0000

"A small word of warning: linux looks like a unix, but I implemented it from scratch, and with very little literature on how things 'should' be done."

Dusting Off the 0.01 Kernel

Jeremy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:35:59 +0000

Abdel Benamrouche announced that he has updated the original 0.01 Linux kernel to compile with GCC-4.x, allowing it to run on emulators such as QEMU and Bochs. After applying his series of small patches, Abdel explains that the 0.01 kernel can be built on a system running the 2.6 Linux kernel. He added that he's successfully ported bash-3.2, portions of coreutils-6.9, dietlibc-0.31 (instead of glibc), bin86-0.16.17, make-3.81, ncurses-2.0.7, and vim-7.1 all to run on his modified 0.01 kernel.

Quote: Keep Linux Simple

Jeremy — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:50:24 +0000

"I'd like to keep linux simple even at the cost of some speed hit, as otherwise it grows until nobody really understands it."

Quote: 2 Extra Copies Of Linux For Free

Jeremy — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:12:40 +0000

"If I /agree/ to add it to linux? If anybody implements paging, he's going to get 2 extra copies of linux for free. How's that for an offer?"

Quote: Memory Is Getting Relatively Cheap

Jeremy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:06:08 +0000

"Memory is getting relatively cheap these days --- we're talking maybe US$30 to US$40 per megabyte if your machine can take SIMMS. Upgrading a machine from 2 meg to 4 meg doesn't cost *that* much money."