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The 2007 Linux and free software timeline
Welcome to the tenth annual LWN Linux and free software timeline. In what
has become a longstanding tradition, LWN finishes each year with a
collection of the most important events from the last twelve months.
This is version 1.0 of the 2007 timeline. There are certainly errors and omissions; if you find any, please send them to timeline@lwn.net rather than posting them as comments. The development of the LWN.net Linux Timeline was supported by LWN subscribers; if you like what you see, please consider subscribing to LWN.
Thanks to the following people for suggestions which have improved this year's timeline:
For the historically minded, the timelines for the previous nine years remain available:
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All-in-one, bigpage link? Posted Dec 21, 2007 18:47 UTC (Fri) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] Is there going to be the traditional Druidic "all in one huge page" link thing?
suggestion: November Posted Dec 21, 2007 23:30 UTC (Fri) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] I think the "Give one, get one" program, begun November 12, is a significant event for Linux and free software. News coverage such as Bill Board's article in the BBC, " Give me rice, but give me a laptop too", give an indication of the importance of OLPC. The G1G1 program provides the opportunity for individuals outside of the target groups to purchase the laptop. It seems to me that such an adaptation of the plans for this extraordinary project is worth a mention.
Stable NTFS read-write support Posted Jan 6, 2008 2:38 UTC (Sun) by szaka (subscriber, #12740) [Link]
I've sent the below email to timeline@lwn.net on 22th of Dec 2007 but got
no reply, so please let me copy it below this time since quite many people
invested a lot effort into this to happen finally.
Good Day,
Thanks to thousands of contributors over the last twelve years, Linux
finally has stable read-write support for one of the most widely used and
complex files systems in existence (Microsoft's NTFS estimated source base
is over 500,000 lines, meanwhile FAT is around only 5,000).
In the same year the driver was included in over 100 Linux distributions,
including all the major ones, was also ported to OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
Haiku, OpenSolaris, bigendian and 64-bit platforms.
Best regards,
Szaka
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NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org
Stable NTFS read-write support Posted Jan 11, 2008 21:26 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] That really is an impressive achievement! Congratulations to everybody who participated. I salute you even though I personally haven't used NTFS since somewhere around 2002. :)
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