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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Will SLIP/PPP support be available soon?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.222112.14969@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 22:21:12 GMT
- References: <9208302107.AA27751@cue.bc.ca>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 14
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- In article <9208302107.AA27751@cue.bc.ca> tdzubin@cue.bc.ca (Thomas Dzubin) writes:
- >
- >Is the TCP/IP stuff slated to be included in the next 'standard' Kernel
- >release (Linus?).
-
- Yes, the tcp/ip subdirectory will be part of the next major release (ie
- 0.98), although I won't have it compiled into the standard bootimage.
- People who need it can recompile the kernel easily enough, and it's not
- essential for the rest of the system.
-
- Linus
-
- PS. And yes, 'ps', 'free' etc will be slightly broken once more, but
- not too badly this time.
-