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- From: torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux
- Subject: linux-0.99 patchlevel 2
- Keywords: linux kernel, patch, 0.99.2, minor fixes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.223837.28553@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 22:38:37 GMT
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 29
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
-
- Yes, as you've probably noticed, it's now 1993 and I still haven't
- released 1.0. Sorry about that, and I have only another patchlevel to
- offer. The new kernel should mainly fix some of the keyboard problems
- people have experienced, but does contain some other minor fixes.
-
- Linux 0.99.2 is available now at nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus
- as both sources and diffs against 0.99.1 the diffs are essentially the
- same as the second alpha-diffs I released for limited testing, with only
- minor fixes to fs/exec.c and fs/open.c.
-
- Please try out 0.99.2: the more feedback (hopefully positive) I get on
- it, the faster 1.0 will be out.
-
- Changes from pl1 are mainly:
- - pretty much rewritten low-level keyboard handling IO - this time
- actually trying to do it by the book. It now handles resend requests
- from the keyboard etc.
- - you can run executables from filesystems without bmap support. This
- mainly means NFS and msdos. Note that while it's possible, it's
- slower and less memory-efficient than using a "normal" linux
- filesystem, and should generally be avoided.
- - /proc filesystem changes: /proc/kmsg can be used to log the kernel
- messages under X11 (instead of using the older system call to do the
- same), and there are changes to the statistics routines (WCHAN).
-
- + various minor fixes (non-existent devices are handled better, some
- changes to socket bind behaviour etc).
-
- Linus
-