Changes to the LWN 1999 Linux Timeline

Changes in version 1.0

• March:
  • Matrox releases G200 specs

• June:
  • NVidia and Matrox release drivers and/or specs

• September:
  • LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 released

• December:
  • Quake 1 is open sourced.

Changes in version 0.90

• February:
  • SGI releases GLX

• March:
  • Added the SideFX Houdini port
  • Added detail to the linux.com purchase

• April:
  • Linux comes out on top of the International Operating System Counter results.
  • Changed wording on gcc/egcs item

• May::
  • Linux Counter turns over 100,000 entries.

• June:
  • Yet Another Perl Conference

• September:
  • Gimp 1.1 goes into feature freeze
  • Open Source Practice Management Summit

• October:
  • FreeGIS launches
  • GRASS released under the GPL

• November:
  • Second edition of Gimp users manual
  • Alternative: Linux in Montréal.

• December:
  • Gimp 1.1 goes into final pre-1.2 testing
  • Mozilla M12
  • Linux-Mandrake 7.0 beta
  • GNUPC.com launches
  • ESR launches The Art of Unix Programming
  • Amazon.com boycott
  • Real-time Linux workshop
  • The DVD lawsuit.

Changes in version 0.85

• September:
  • Added OpenSales and Yams
  • Added the NOAA Linux cluster purchase

• October:
  • It was actually the second KDE developers' conference

• November:
  • Added Linux-India's participation in IT.COM '99
  • Fixed bad XFree86 link.

• December:
  • Added the SuSE 6.3 release