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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Whining...I don't want to hack on the kernel
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.191312.25128@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 19:13:12 GMT
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- In article <kenc.714229866@sol.acs.unt.edu>, kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ken Corey - Operator) writes:
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- | Yeah, this is true. Everyone is important. The only problem is: who is
- | going to provide the labor to make everything stable between versions
- | (especially when those versions are coming out every week)?
-
- We haven't seen a complete release since 0.96c, I think. There's a
- mj-0.97.1 I've seen, haven't tried it, but someone said it didn't
- include ps and there was a header problem. I don't know that this is
- true, but the posting I got on it seems to indicate it's gcc2.2.2b
- rather than d, so that's not quite there.
-
- And since Linus seems to think there will be good stuff in 0.98, and
- by then tape support should be stable, and extended f/s working just
- right, and maybe the msdos and xenix f/s stuff will be included with
- options in the makefile for the kernel... about then I'll probably
- update everything, and then hack the kernel to allow dedicating part of
- memory to buffers rather than dynamic allocation. That will speed up
- two little SX boxes with 8MB on the AT bus.
-
- I don't find that 0.96c is slowing me down, and while I'd like to have
- some of the neat stuff in 0.97.1, I've booted the kernel and it isn't
- all that much faster, and I don't have a ps which /quite/ works...
-
- The moral is that when and if you get stable, stay there and use the
- machine, these stable points are too blasted far apart!
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-