I noticed that there's a very early Linux kernel on the FTP server, named Linux 0.01, consisting of Assembly and C source code. Has anybody actually managed to successfully build this, and then boot it? Because a bootable image of this would be epic.

Let me dig out my compilers. Where is the file located?

Why do we have this on the server, the code
can be downloaded from any kernel.org's mirrors O_o

you need Minix 386 1.5 and gcc 1.x on your VM.

Abandonware (Operating Systems)\PC\Linux 0.01.rar


Dunno...


Might try it then at some point Does it make the executable required to create a bootable floppy, or something? Or does it just make the kernel, which you then have to figure out how to boot yourself?

It will only compile kernel binaries which you need to shove in to your linux installation.

Okay. I see little point in compiling it other than for the lulz, then.

I should make a live CD with that kernel and attempt to run it on my granddad's i7 with 8GB RAM...

If you installed the kernel on a very old distro on a bootable floppy, it'd probably run in a 286 machine

I'd doubt it since you need Minix 386 to compile it.

Yeah, Linux 0.01 isn't worth to see. It has two threads that continously print either 'A' or 'B'. Look for Linux 0.99, and make sure you sync your disks before shutting down multiple times... or they'll corrupt, they may corrupt anyway !

that was Linux 0.00.
Linux 0.1 had floppy hdd and keyboard drivers and supported 8MB RAM and Minix partitions.

That site is where I got kernel 0.96

It makes a kernel. You have to format a floppy to the MINIX filesystem and find a way to bootstrap it.

If you want to play with old Linux stuff, check out [url]virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com[/url]. That guy also does other old stuff, generally in QEMU and SIMH. Also, http://www.oldlinux.org is good for finding old versions of Linux.

I'm intending to put some VMs up on my own site, actually...