Changes to the 1998 Linux timeline

Changes since 1.0

• (October) David Miller's wedding moved to right month.

  Changes in 1.0

  • (April) Added "Homesteading the Noosphere."
  • (June) UK Linux Developers' Conference
  • (July) Internet operating system counter goes online
  • (December) AFS was already available to licensees
  • (December) Compaq releases RAID driver under GPL

  Changes in 0.95

  • Permanent URL added to intro
  • (January) "The Titanic" is really just "Titanic".
  • (May) Alan Cox starts at Red Hat (moved from April)
  • (June) SVLUG "great linux revolt" and "launch win98 on a rocket" split apart as two separate events.
  • (July) Netware for Linux release.
  • (August) Add Russ Nelson and Chip Salzenberg as OSI board members.
  • (September) Linux Magazine France debuts.
  • (September) Microsoft lists Linux in their SEC filing.
  • (September) Linux Internet Server Administration Guide startup
  • (September) Stackguard/Immunix release
  • (October) Jon Postel dies
  • (December) Sunsite.unc.edu becomes MetaLab.unc.edu.
  • (December) GNOME 1.0 freeze
  • (December) LibGGI 2.0 beta released.
  • (December) Linus and Tove at the Finnish Independence day celebration.
  • (December) Eric Troan gets married.
  • (December) Linux kernel archive mirror system.
  • (December) Linux kernel history.
  • (December) BSDI announces Linux compatibility package

  Changes in version 0.90

  • Ability to jump to specific months added
  • (February) Some tweaks in discussion of the GGI wars.
  • (February) Linux General Store opens
  • (June) Project Heresy.
  • (June) GIMP 1.0 release added.
  • (June) Kernel 2.0.34 release.
  • (June) SVLUG Windows 98 "launch" and rally.
  • (June) Chinese Linux Extension project begins
  • (July) "Future of Linux" panel.
  • (July) LinuxPPC 4.0
  • (August) EiffelBase open source release.
  • (October) Corel announces support for WINE
  • (October) Add AFUL response to Microsoft France "open letter."
  • (October) LinuxPower.org goes live.
  • (October) Alphalinux.org goes live.
  • (November) Ext2.org hits the net.
  • (November) Silicon valley tea party.
  • (November) LinuxPPC 5.0 announcement.
  • (November) COMDEX
  • (December) CLOWN cluster.
  • (December) Netscape "gecko" release.
  • (December) First pre-2.2 kernel release.
  • (December) KDE 1.1.