/? 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