>But Linux itself is not yet 10 years old (AFAIK). So IMHO it should not
Correct, the first version 0.10 was released in either October or November
of '91, and the first widely available version 0.12 was released in January
of '92. After that it jumped to 0.95 (the first version to support logging
in, the first 3 just dumped you in as root). The jump from 0.12 to 0.95
was something Linus later realized was a mistake as the kernal wasn't as
far along as he realized, and resulted in some very convoluted version
numbers. IIRC it finally reached 1.0 in November of '93. Since 1.0 the
version numbers have made a LOT more sense :^)
I'm honestly amazed that it's over six years old, it doesn't seem that long!
Zane
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