The LWN.net 2004 Linux Timeline [LWN.net]

Much happens in the Linux world over the course of a year. 2004 saw ongoing legal and political fights, new distributions, big releases of major applications, a new mode for kernel development, and more. This timeline is our attempt to separate out the most significant developments of the year and present them in a concise and enjoyable format. It continues an annual LWN tradition; it is the seventh in the series.

This is version 0.9 of the 2004 timeline. If you find any remaining major omissions, please send them to us at timeline@lwn.net; please do not post errors or omissions as comments until after we have had a chance to address them.

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As usual, the timeline is split up by month. We apologize that a "one big page" version is not available at this time.

January
February
March
April

May
June
July
August

September
October
November
December

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