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- From: s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Peter David Cupit)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Whining...I don't want to hack on the kernel
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.142000.16565@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:20:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.225538.16085@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug13.133700.9139@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Aug18.011305.27223@access.usask.ca>
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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- dzubin@skorpio.usask.ca (Thomas Dzubin) writes:
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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,
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-
- There is an image of 0.97 pl 1 +, I am using it, it was done by Martin
- Janius, except I forgot where it was from... Umm It's the mj-xx stuff.
- There is also a ps and top and etc that works with this pathed version.
-
- I was able to compile gcc with < 2mb of ram with this release, amazing
- stuff. With 5mb it's amazing!!! Can compile gcc 1.40, + another
- large program + do editing with a fair response time..... On a 25 mhz
- 386!!! (All at once I meant.) Btw did I read somewhere that it's
- bad to use disimilar sized sims, I have 80ns + 70ns + 9 chip + 3 chip
- + 256 + 1m all together, works fine except sometimes a hard reset is
- required to get the boot disk to boot...??
-
-
- mj stuff was on banjo but there is another site that has mj- stuff.
-
- I will post when I remember the address of it..
-
- Peter Cupit.
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- s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
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