Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 13:34:40 EST


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:13:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> just curious about this:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/pre-releases

These were the -test kernels that preceeded 2.6.0.

> given that it seems filled with really old 2.6.0 content, what's the
> value in it? just curious.

just curious about this:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic

given that it seems filled with really old content, what's the
value in it? just curious.

;-)

> rday

cu
Adrian

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