Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:44:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:43:57 -0400 Received: from Expansa.sns.it ([192.167.206.189]:47631 "EHLO Expansa.sns.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:43:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:44:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Genoni To: Riley Williams cc: Henning P Schmiedehausen , Linux Kernel , Subject: Re: 2.0.39 kernel release history In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Riley Williams wrote: > > Yes, you are right, if I do remember well there as been 10/12 1.99.X > > kernels. > > Unless I'm mistaken, the 2.0-pre series of releases was identified > internally as 1.99.x instead. This series of 14 kernels were released > between 12 May 1996 and 6 Jun 1996, and are listed in the quote above. let me remember. I used and teste all kernel from 1.3.20 till 2.0.0, and so... after 1.3.100 there was 1.99.1. It was released with this name. I do not remember if i tested 14 kernels. They were released really fast, one, sometimes two, every day. My test server was a P75 with 16 ;byte of RAM and 1 GB of hard disk. I had 50 users, and usually i had 4 users conneted interactivelly at the same time, using three IBM black and white X-Terms, and the X11 session (one stelath 64 video card, with 2 Mbyte RAM, on a 17 incs monitor, with a resolution of 1280x1024 at 8 bpp :) ). All suers were using mozilla or netscape, fvwm 1.4, and xosview :). Now you would need mutch more memory to do the same with modern DE!. > > If I am mistaken and there were indeed a dozen or so kernels released > with 1.99 version numbers between 1.3.100 and 2.0-pre1, they were all > released in the 2 days between those kernels, and I have to state that > I would consider this unlikely, although not impossible. 2.0.0-pre1 was released two day before 2.0.0. I had no time to test 2.0.0-pre2 Then Linus posted a mail saying (passim, I try to remeber more or less the content). "2.0.0 is out. what changed? ummm let me think. it's a lot of time I am not using a 1.2 kernel [....] World domination last" Italo, could you try to help me to remember? You were upgrading RS6000 from AIX 3.1 to AIX 3.2.5, I think. 2.0.21 has been out for maybe a couple of month before 2.0.22 have been released. 2.0.21 was more that rock solid! We bought at SNS 6 Pentoium Pro220 Mhz some days after 2.0.21 was released, but they were putted into production with 2.0.28 (a lot of time after, I know, but there was a problem with adaptec 2940UW and some ext2 corruption) Luigi Genoni > > However, the claim that there were other kernels between 0.01 and 0.10 > of which I am not aware, or between 0.12 and 0.95 of which I am also not > aware, would not surprise me in either case. Here is the relevant part > of the history sequence for this period... there was I think at less a kernel, maybe two, after 0.0.1 and before 0.10, but I do not remeber. I started to use Linux seriously with 0.96 on a 386 DX 33 Mhz with 4 mega of RAM (used to host a BBS for SNS students, that was closed when CED Director discovered it) > > >>> 17 Sep 1991 17:29:55 10,239 235,669 0.01 > >>> > >>> 3 Dec 1991 1:48:02 13,460 307,481 0.10 > >>> 8 Dec 1991 18:37:16 13,839 319,681 0.11 > >>> 16 Jan 1992 6:39:10 19,258 446,636 0.12 > >>> > >>> 8 Mar 1992 12:04:59 20,882 493,630 0.95 > >>> 17 Mar 1992 21:47:55 21,275 503,578 0.95a > >>> 9 Apr 1992 20:48:11 22,147 527,085 0.95c > > ...and you will note that 11 weeks passed between the 0.01 and 0.10 > kernels, and a further 7.5 weeks between the 0.12 and 0.95 kernels. > However, I have been unable to locate any reliable information regarding > the missing kernels, so this is the limit of my knowledge here. > > The other period where I suspect missing kernels is this one... > > >>> 15 Aug 1993 15:28:14 122,867 3,244,802 0.99.12 > >>> 17 Aug 1993 22:39:38 122,871 3,244,979 0.99.12a > >>> > >>> 20 Sep 1993 16:18:01 124,228 3,279,890 0.99.13 > >>> > >>> 25 Oct 1993 22:33:27 135,501 3,605,576 0.99.13k > >>> > >>> 29 Nov 1993 9:11:53 157,045 4,180,919 0.99.14 > >>> 3 Dec 1993 15:26:49 156,751 4,169,476 0.99.14a > > ...between the 0.99.12a and 0.99.14 kernel releases. I suspect both that > there were other kernels in each of the three gaps shown above, but have > been unable to find any reliable information regarding them. Personally, > I would anticipate full alphabets for both the 0.99.12 and 0.99.13 > subseries as occurs with the 0.99.14 subseries, but can't prove it. > > As far as I am aware, the collection of available kernels from 0.99.14 > to date is complete, and it is only these five gaps where kernels are > missing. ANY information regarding any of the missing kernels would be > much appreciated, and actual tarballs for ANY of these would be a bonus. > > Best wishes from Riley. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/