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

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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