Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: 2.1.109 useable on 8mb RAM | Date | 20 Jul 1998 17:13:07 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.00.9807172016280.142-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > >> I'd be most suprised ;) >> >> 2.1.113 -> 2.2pre maybe - but we have a lot of bugs left and some are both >> hard to fix and showstoppers > >I'd much rather we released 2.2 with as few bugs as possible for obvious >reasons (teach Microsoft that it _is_ possible to release a fully working >operating system - unlike Windows 95 which was released with 4,000 obscure >bugs!), so keep with the 2.1.x tree until we've got all the problems >ironed out and all user space programs reworked to work/compile with >*both* libc5/glibc2.
Why this last? That's a userspace problem, not a kernel problem.
____ david parsons \bi/ bad userland, no biscuit. \/
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