Der zweite Golfkrieg war beängstigend wie beeindruckend zugleich. George W. Bush lehrte uns den Nutzen präventiver Verteidigungskriege und kam damit sogar vor der Weltöffentlichkeit durch. Die Koalition der Willigen wirkte streckenweise ebenso lächerlich wie ihr Name… und das, obwohl einigermaßen ernstzunehmende Nationen in dieser Koalition vertreten waren.

All dies war für mich Grund genug, zwischen November 2002 und August 2003 besonders genau hinzusehen. Was genau in diesen Tagen passierte, habe ich in einem Beitrag zusammengefasst.

Der zweite Golfkrieg: http://ditze.net/der-zweite-golfkrieg/

Mit diesem Usenet-Posting wies Linus Torvalds am 05.10.1991 die Welt erstmals darauf hin, dass er dabei sei, ein System von einem Hacker für Hacker geschaffen zu haben. Damals sagte er, dass er noch nicht so genau wisse, was man nun damit machen könne, die Arbeit daran habe aber sehr viel Spaß gemacht. Etwa 12 Jahre später hält das System unter dem Namen Linux laut META-Group einen Anteil von 12% als Betriebssystem in Serverumgebungen. Zur Erinnerung daran, wie klein und unscheinbar das “Linux”-Projekt seinerzeit startete, archiviere ich an dieser Stelle das historische Posting.

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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT
Keywords: 386, preliminary version
Message-ID: <1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Lines: 55

Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying
to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you
finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-
nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just
for you

As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I’m working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage
where it’s even usable (though may not be depending on what you want),
and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is
just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I’ve successfully
run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it.

Sources for this pet project of mine can be found at nic.funet.fi
(128.214.6.100) in the directory /pub/OS/Linux. The directory also
contains some README-file and a couple of binaries to work under linux
(bash, update and gcc, what more can you ask for . Full kernel
source is provided, as no minix code has been used. Library sources are
only partially free, so that cannot be distributed currently. The
system is able to compile “as-is” and has been known to work. Heh.
Sources to the binaries (bash and gcc) can be found at the same place in
/pub/gnu.

ALERT! WARNING! NOTE! These sources still need minix-386 to be compiled
(and gcc-1.40, possibly 1.37.1, haven’t tested), and you need minix to
set it up if you want to run it, so it is not yet a standalone system
for those of you without minix. I’m working on it. You also need to be
something of a hacker to set it up (?), so for those hoping for an
alternative to minix-386, please ignore me. It is currently meant for
hackers interested in operating systems and 386′s with access to minix.

The system needs an AT-compatible harddisk (IDE is fine) and EGA/VGA. If
you are still interested, please ftp the README/RELNOTES, and/or mail me
for additional info.

I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves “why?”. Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I’ve already got
minix. This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I’ve enjouyed doing
it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for
their own needs. It is still small enough to understand, use and
modify, and I’m looking forward to any comments you might have.

I’m also interested in hearing from anybody who has written any of the
utilities/library functions for minix. If your efforts are freely
distributable (under copyright or even public domain), I’d like to hear
from you, so I can add them to the system. I’m using Earl Chews estdio
right now (thanks for a nice and working system Earl), and similar works
will be very wellcome. Your (C)’s will of course be left intact. Drop me
a line if you are willing to let me use your code.

Linus

PS. to PHIL NELSON! I’m unable to get through to you, and keep getting
“forward error – strawberry unknown domain” or something.

Am 26.04.1986 kam es im russischen Tschernobyl zu einem Super-GAU – das dortige Atomkraftwerk explodierte und
hinterließ eine der größten Umweltkatastrophen unserer Zeit.
Durch die hohe radioaktive Belastung blieb eine verlassene, geisterhafte Gegend zurück.

Eine junge Frau namens Elena aka Kidofspeed machte mehrere Ausflüge in die Todeszone um Tschernobyl. Elena sagt über
sich selbst “My name is Elena. I run this website and I don’t have anything to sell. What I do have is my motorbike and the absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and the speed demon take me. “

Die Fotodokumentationen und ihre Reiseberichte finden sich hier: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm