Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu! dsimon From: dsi...@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Derron Simon) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux Subject: Linux 0.13? Message-ID: <68076@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 1 Mar 92 19:17:54 GMT Sender: n...@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: eniac.seas.upenn.edu When is version 0.13 scheduled to be released? I don't want to hassle with all the patches and updates to 0.12 so I'd like to wait until 0.13 if it is not going to be long from now. Thanks, Derron -- /* Derron Simon (SEAS 1994) * Tipsy fuddled boozy groggy elevated / */ /* dsi...@eniac.seas.upenn.edu * Prime did edit her / Hellborn elfchild */ /* * roadhog mountain fortune hunter / Man */ /* University of Pennsylvania * beheader her - Fluff's Travels (Phish) */
Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!torvalds From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux Subject: Re: Linux 0.13? Message-ID: <1992Mar2.013147.5599@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 2 Mar 92 01:31:47 GMT References: <68076@netnews.upenn.edu> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 101 In article <6...@netnews.upenn.edu> dsi...@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Derron Simon) writes: >When is version 0.13 scheduled to be released? I don't want to hassle with >all the patches and updates to 0.12 so I'd like to wait until 0.13 if it is >not going to be long from now. I'm putting in the finishing touches this week: 0.13 should be out next weekend at the latest (unless some new bug shows up), and I hope to get it ready by Thursday. I'll definitely call it 0.95, making clear that version 1.0 isn't that far away. 0.95 will have these features: - faster floppy (based on cdiffs by entropy (Lawrence Foard), but I didn't patch in the formatting code). Untaring from a floppy is no longer a pain. - VFS-stubs (based on cdiffs by proven (Chris Provenzo), but again my version does not contain all of his code, and I added some changes of my own too.) - Better VC handling (works on other cards that EGA/VGA), thanks to pmacdona (Peter McDonald). I think 0.13 finally contains most of the VC code things: screen blanking, corrected vt100-codes etc. - Swapon system call (swapping from files as well as block devices), based on patches by Simmule Turner. This one needs some additional work still. - poe-IGL-1.2 (or close to it). - ptrace (by Ross Biro) - not guaranteed, but I think we'll get gdb working in 0.95. - bugfixes and minor enhancements: file protections, nonblocking IO, UK and Danish keyboards, rename etc. Most of the patches have been heavily edited by me (indeed, very few of them are patched in automatically with 'patch'), and not all of the functionality of all the patches will be there. I've mostly written in the patches by hand, so the author of the code will not necessarily even recognize his own work. As with the VC patches, some of these patches will probably evolve for a few releases before they get their final form (especially VFS which was easily the biggest patch to date). Changes that haven't been seen as patches that will be in 0.95: - many minor corrections (rename corrected, ^S/^Q corrected, better (?) buffer-cache handling, some corrected error-returns). - lockup bugs (two of them) removed: I hope that was the last of them (yeah, sure..). - minor race-conditions with swapping removed (still not 100%, but better, and I hope the "block already free'd" error should go away) - TIOCxWINSZ works now. - Harddisk changes: the second harddisk will be on minor numbers 64-127 instead of 5-9 as now. I also have some code there that hopefully gets extended partitions right, but as I haven't been able to test it I somehow doubt it works 100% ... The default harddisk names have changed: here's a simple listing new minor old minor hda 0 hd0 0 hda1 1 hd1 1 hda2 2 hd2 2 hda3 3 hd3 3 hda4 4 hd4 4 hda5 5 (extended) - - hdaX X -- "" -- - - hdb 64 hd5 5 hdb1 65 hd6 6 etc I'm guessing this will get some people confused, but the old naming and numbering conventions were so bad as to be pretty unusable with extended partitions. Fdisk currently doesn't understand extended partitions: I'll try to get that corrected too. Patches available now, but NOT in 0.95: - printer port patch. I still haven't gotten around to this one, as I haven't got a printer. So sue me. - SCSI driver: didn't make it in time. I don't expect too many problems applying the 0.12-patch to 0.95. - mmap patch: not in time, and so specialized I felt there wasn't that much of a hurry. Again, this patch should probably patch into 0.95 without undue problems. So: I hope 0.13 should prove to be more stable, and more easily extensible, but it will look mostly like 0.12 with a init/login. No /major/ new features like in eariler releases: I hope that means linux is getting more mature rather than stagnating :) Linus