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- From: torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds)
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: linux 0.99 patchlevel 1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.233646.16236@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Keywords: kernel, linux, 0.99 patchlevel 1
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:36:46 GMT
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
- Lines: 37
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- Linux-0.99.1 is now available on nic.funet.fi, and will probably show up
- on the other linux ftp sites within days, unless everybody has gone off
- for the holidays. The directory is /pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus, and it's
- available both as a patch against 0.99 and as complete source. The
- patch is pretty clean, although most people probably have changed 0.99
- slightly to get rid of the setup and/or inode.c problems, so if you
- have, you'll have to revert or patch by hand.
-
- Patch 1 addresses the following problems:
- - configuration. Hope there are no silly problems left..
- - inode.c: initialization changes (the missing NULL and some other
- minor fixes).
- - some SCSI tape driver patches (Kai M{kisara)
- - tcp/ip patches (Ross Biro, some code by me)
- - keyboard patches (mainly changed initialization - hope the keyboard
- lockups are gone).
- - completed /proc-fs: it should now contain all info needed by 'ps'
- (Micheal K Johnson).
- - various minor fixes (the minix-fs link overflow checking etc)
-
- Patch1 also contains support for extended VC switching - this is for the
- upcoming X11 that understands VC's. One result of this is that console
- redirection now redirects *only* messages actually sent to /dev/console
- (aka /dev/tty0), not just to any foreground VC. Wait for Xfree-1.2 to
- be able to switch VC's while under X (yes, including several X-sessions
- active at the same time..).
-
- I hope there are still people out there that aren't too busy stuffing
- themself with turkey to try out a new kernel release. There is just
- over a week left of this year, and I need feedback in order to be able
- to release 1.0.
-
- Linus
-
- PS. Thanks to everybody who has sent me Christmas/New Year/Birthday
- cards. Some contained money, some didn't, and I enjoyed them all.
- Thanks.
-