Re: Linux 2.1

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:'
>
>I was just wondering whether 2.0.21 had been succeeded by a newer patch ---
>and the answer is yes and no.
>
>No for a 2.0.x patch, but yes as the development of 2.1 has started on Sep 30
>with a 2.0.21-2.1.0 patch of 310 kB gzipped!!! Now, I haven't looked into
>Usenet in a long time, so have you heard what the kernel development is up to
>these days?  Are the goals of 2.1 public somewhere?

Linus posted recently that 2.0.22 is expected this week.  There are
pulic goals for 2.1, but I forget the URL.

>Anyway, as 2.0 seems to have converged (no patch since Sep 20), we might want
>to compile a new set of kernel-{image,source,headers}, bootdisks, pcmcia
>modules etc.

2.0.22 is just released (it's on tsx-11).  Might be best to use it.
-r--r--r--   1 daemon   ftp-linu    49016 Oct  8 12:01 patch-2.0.22.gz

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