The LWN 1999 Linux Timeline

What a year. We went into 1999 expecting Linux to do incredible things, and were still amazed. Linux is truly on a roll.

In the same spirit as our popular 1998 Linux Timeline, here is our attempt to summarize what has happened in the Linux world over the last year. This is version 1.0 of the LWN 1999 Linux Timeline. Work on the timeline is essentially finised now; nonetheless, if there is an important item missing please drop us a note at lwn@lwn.net to let us know what we missed.

The 1999 timeline

This year we have split the timeline up into individual months, for quick loading and ease of access.

January
February
March
April

May
June
July
August

September
October
November
December

If you prefer, you may also:

View the timeline as one big file. It's about 500kb of text and imagery.

See also the change log to see what has been added in later versions of the timeline.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following who have helped to make the 1999 timeline more complete!

Nathan Bailey
Atul Chitnis
Ted Clark
Tim Cook
Jason Haas
Michael J. Hammel
Denis Havlik
Marco Iannacone
Rob Kennedy
Olof S Kylander
Elliot Lee
Jon Leech
Charles Levert
Greg Lindahl
Doug Mitchell

Toon Moene
Nathan Myers
Eric Raymond
Bernhard Reiter
George Russell
Joe Schottman
Michael Stack
Troy Unrau
Marc van Woerkom
Steve Wainstead
David A. Wheeler
Mark Whitley
Matt Wilkie
Chris Winters
Hans Zoebelein