On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira <spide...@gmail.com> wrote: > mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short > summary or something. > > TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open > source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentioned > the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 -> X.org evolution, > linux [..]. -> 2.4 -> 2.6 evolution, sound stack evolution (OSS, ALSA, > JACK, PA, ESD, Arts, Phonon), multimedia history (ffmpeg, mplayer, > mplayer2, gstreamer, xine, vlc). It could go all the way back to > shell's, like sh, csh, BASH, zsh.
Not OSS related, but I really enjoyed reading Dennis Ritchie's article on the history of the C programming language (which also gets into the early UNIX days): http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
