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.