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- From: dzubin@skorpio.usask.ca (Thomas Dzubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Whining...I don't want to hack on the kernel
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.011305.27223@access.usask.ca>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 01:13:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.133700.9139@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >So the answer is to upgrade your kernel: if possible all the way to
- >0.97.pl1 + the one-line patch due to performance reasons, but 0.96c or
- >similar should work very well for your needs.
- >
- > Linus
-
- Sorry if this is sacreligious, but I DON'T WANT TO HACK THE KERNEL. It
- would be absolutely *wonderful* if someone (ANYONE!?) would put the
- binary of 0.97.pl1 somewhere FTP-able.
- I got into Linux just as the 0.97 new bootimage and rootimage were released,
- so I used them...now people tell me that my version has a bug in it and
- should be patched.
- Only C source patches seem to be available.
- Here's the problem: I have only a 2400bps modem to connect to the Internet.
- I would love to get the new .97 patch with the performance improvement
- that everyone is raving about, but I just cannot afford to download the
- C sources to the kernel when I'm only going to use it once - to patch it.
- I noticed that there is a new rootimage-0.97.1 on nic.funet.fi! This
- is *exactly* the type of thing that we need...an update of the (fixed?)
- *BINARIES* [sorry for yelling] every couple of weeks on the various FTP
- sites. Anyone willing to upload a 'bootimage-0.97.1'?
-
- Is there any way to implement reliable binary patches? Something like
- "Change the word at location 0508 from '1234' to '0203'"
-
- I'm sure there's gotta be other people like me around...people who
- a) prefer a Un*x system over MooSe-DOS
- b) just want to putter around...maybe compile a few programs, learn gawk,
- etc.. (or even play rogue :-)
- c) don't have the machine resources (Internet connection speed, disk space)
- to be running a FULL development system.
-
- ps: to avoid pissing people at my site off, I downloaded the GCC2.2.2b
- stuff between midnight and 6am...it took *THREE* days before I could do
- anything.
- psps: I will scream if someone sends me mail saying 'buy a faster modem'
-
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- Thomas Dzubin
- tdzubin@cue.bc.ca
-