Show HN: I made a Linux history (35 yrs!) video using "video as code"

2 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by sujee_dev

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westurner

6 hours ago

/? gource: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

/? gource Linux: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gource+Linux

Gource of torvalds/linux [through 2024-12] https://youtube.com/watch?v=kxdOAsDqGhY

History of Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Booting process of Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting_process_of_Linux

Linux kernel version history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history

List of Linux distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

But software packaging made it all happen;

List of software package management systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...

In the 90s, it took a couple floppy disks to install LILO and a kernel and a userspace.

dpkg (1994), pms (1994) -> RPM (1995) -> yum (2002) -> DNF (2012), rpm-ostree with ostree native containers

dpkg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg

RPM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager

DNF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNF_(software)

What about the history of how Linux kernel development and major Linux distro development have been hosted? Patches over 40 KB on mailing lists, build farms, VCS version control systems