Re: pre-patches - where?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 23 May 1997 13:50:55 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 19 May 1997, Daniel G. Link wrote:

> What is the "official" place to look for pre-patches? Certainly not
> ftp.kernel.org, as their "testing" subdir only contains
> pre-patch-2.0.30.gz (among other things).
>
> BTW, what is the official place for release kernels now? Certainly not
> ftp.funet.fi anymore, as ftp.kernel.org has them sooner.

I'm having similar problems. I have, on occasion, fingered
@ftp.kernel.org and found that there is a new development kernel, but been
unable to find it at funet.fi, cistron.nl, or even cs.helsinki.fi. Upon
making the slow trek to kernel.org, I find that the kernel is a couple of
days old.

Anyway, I don't want to complain, as you're all (well, mostly anyway) busy
people, but sometimes it's hard to remain on the bleeding edge...

Matthew.

PS. I provide a mirror on ftp.lmh.ox.ac.uk:/pub/linux/kernel/ which
should have a fast link to most of Europe.

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