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Just out of curiosity: What's the oldest code/package in a typical linux distro? Emacs? GCC?
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Linux in 2020: 27.8 million lines of code in the kernel, 1.3 million in systemd. The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.
Debian was one of the first Linux distros. It was first announced on August 16, 1993, by Ian Murdock, though the first stable version was released in 1996.
In September '91, Linus announced Linux (standing for 'Linus's MINIX') and encouraged his colleagues to use its source code for wider distribution. Linus thought that the name Linux was too egotistical.
In 1991, while studying computer science at University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds began a project that later became the Linux kernel.
Sun RPC is pretty old, and it's in the C library:http://blogs.oracle.com/webmink/entry/old_code_and_old_licenses
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