Re: Beginers on 1.3 linux kernels. (fwd)

Lonnie Norton (norton@aros.net)
Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:46:08 -0700 (MST)


On Mon, 26 Feb 1996 pj22298@appstate.edu wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 21:23:48 EST
> From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@CAM.ORG>
> To: pj22298@xx.acs.appstate.edu
> Subject: Beginers on 1.3 linux kernels.
>
> I wonder if you could send this to the kernel mail list for me. I read
> it via the web page since I am a beginner...
>
> I use a 1.3 kernel and am a Linux beginner. Please do not add anything to
> the run time side that will cause any sort of pain. A warning at
> make time would be OK. BTW I use the new kernel since it supports
> my hardware layout - 1.2.13 does not.

Like the ubiquitous ide cdrom drives, which work fine in kernels above
1.3.32.
I use the newer kernels for the same reason, and have been for quite some
time.

>I also understand what beta
> means but so far the 1.3.57-68 kernels have worked for me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed Tomlinson (tomlins@cam.org)
> Montreal, Canada
>
> Home of pppdial: http://www.cam.org/~tomlins/pppdial.html
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