Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Nov 1996 12:10:22 +0200 (EET) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Linux-2.0.25 and 2.1.8 |
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I released 2.0.25 yesterday (but ftp.funet.fi was down, so it showed up there only an hour ago). The 25 release fixes - the X slowdown of 24 - the tulip.c problem along with some other minor stuff (mostly some ide tape filemark condition stuff).
The 2.1.8 release is more "interesting", and the big thing here is the new IPv6 code together with quite a number of cleanups for IPv4 (TCP retransmissions are really done by TCP, not by the IP layer like they used to be done). Thanks to Pedro for all the work on this.
The new networking code can certainly have some problems, but hey, that's the whole point with a development kernel. At least you shouldn't be bored by testing it out (but you might: it's not exactly _unstable_ either, and it might just turn out to work perfectly for everybody, who knows?).
2.1.8 also contains various other patches: - ide code cleanups - three instructions less in system calls ;) - preliminary module exception handling stuff (but your insmod needs to know about this all) - exception 15 handling for those buggy PPro's (this is in 2.0.x too) - AMD k5 divide overflow fix (this is in the 2.0 tree too) - dead-Cedilla keyboard support ("the only good cedilla is a dead cedilla"). This needs a new version of kbdtools to be useful. Also in 2.0.x
Tell me if you have problems,
Linus
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