LINUX: 20 YEARS

From:       torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject:    What would you like to see most in minix?
Date:       25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT


Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready.  I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want.  Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

              Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS.  Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Fedora 11 Linux experience

I started using Fedora 11 shortly after the final release was launched. Yet, I've been using other Linux distribuitions and releases for many years.

From this experience, I concluded that it's important to have a record of all the tweaks made to Linux installations. I started those records on paper, a small booklet/notepad that I keep with my own annotations on several subjects.

After a while, I realized that:

• It's not practical.
• Won't be helpful to anyone else.

Therefore I decided that I should place all this information online, thus helping myself and others (hopefully).

The result is this blog, that tracks random events on my F11 experience, and a site that aggregates information, and can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/fedora11config/.