[geeks] red hat linux version 1.0

[Michael Parson]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Cody Swanson wrote:
> gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Jay Monkman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:57:41PM +0300, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
>>>> Ok, so now I am intriged, does anyone know where to get a copy of Red Hat
>>>> Commerical Linux 1.0 (the original title of the original release)?
>>> 
>>> It looks like it is at 
>>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/redhat/mothers-day-1.0/ 
>>> 
>>> I don't know if it's complete.
>> 
>> Thanks, same few files and empty directories.

> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History
>
> " March 27 2000 	 RHL 6.2 	 Zoot 	 First release to ship ISO 
> images for FTP download."
>
> It appears that the official iso's were not online until 6.2.

Yeah, but they don't have anything other than the original boot/root
disk sets.  They don't have any of the package repositories needed to
actually install the OS.

Until we get to the same 6.2 release, which seems to have both ISOs and 
package repositories.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org