I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too.
Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.
It’s certainly older but Revolution OS is pretty thorough.
I know you want to go deeper, but here’s a nice summary of linux’s early history: https://lwn.net/Articles/928581/
Check these out:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0 AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System (check channel for more)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdoGPav3fc Computer Chronicles: Unix (search the channel for more related videos)
- https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-1/os-wars-part-1 The podcast series Command Line Heroes produced by Redhat includes many episodes that get into history related to Linux. Pick your way through the different seasons and pick out some episodes. Browse the companion site for supplemental material, for example, this post: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/linux-and-enduring-magic-unix
the git history tree for the Linux kernel
Lol that’s a pretty fun idea actually- just to see the commits evolve over time. I know there are over 1 million commits but yeah when you think about it all of them pretty much document the state of kernel at that time.
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This old film by AT&T about UNIX is also very good and gives you a good idea of the OS/software landscape at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0
