Challenge completed

benOur challenge this podcast is to try and get old versions of Linux running. Mike got off to a good start and managed to get Ubuntu Warty Warthog running. I, though, fancied going a little further back in my virtual time machine. Before the birth of Ubuntu, before even Slackware, before distros had even been conceived of.

Before Linux was even really a operating system, there was release 0.00: The first bootable version of Linux. It’s pretty basic. Actually, it’s before it gained enough features to be considered basic. All it does is print out strings of As and Bs (see below). Proof indeed that great things come from small starts.

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If you want to have a go yourself, you can get the files from Virtually Fun at http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=272.

I’ll now start moving forward in time to see how Linux has evolved over the years.

Mike: I think this means I win.

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