On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Mon Feb 25 23:08 -0500, Murray J. Root wrote: > > Nope - 2.4.18-rc4 existed. Then was promoted to 2.4.18. Or do you mean > > they accidentally used 2.4.18-rc3 for the final? > > 2.4.19-pre1 is out now. > > > > I dunno what MDK kernels relate to what - they don't work on my box. > > Basically, here's what happened (as I understand it, so I could be > massively wrong). Marcelo released 2.4.18-rc4. Mandrake's developers > incorporate it into .17-21mdk (why the switch to .21mdk, btw?). Marcelo > decides that 2.4.18 is ready and accidentally (I imagine) copies > 2.4.18-rc3 instead of -rc4 to be the new 2.4.18. Marcelo copies > 2.4.18-rc4 over to 2.4.19-pre1. > > So, for all intents and purposes, 2.4.17-21mdk is 2.4.19-pre1, plus any > patches Mandrake's developers have added. > > I myself am going to try a kernel from the mjc tree... I want to see > what the fuss over pre-emption, the O(1) scheduler, et al is all > about... > > Wrong, 2.4.19-pre1 is not same as 2.4.18-rc4, there are additional fixes so 2.4.17-21mdk does not have 2.4.19-pre1, read the 19-pre1 changelog, these are changes that were queued for inclusion in 19-pre1 when 2.4.18 became final. -- "After I bit the head off the bat, the animal rights people came after me every night. Probably right after they finished eating their Colonel Sande or whatever, telling me I shouldn't be biting the heads off bats. I'll tell you what bats taste like. Like a good McDonald's."-Ozzy Osbourne (1985)
Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux localhost 2.4.18-ac1 #1 Mon Feb 25 22:51:48 AST 2002 i686 unknown 3:45pm up 32 min, 1 user, load average: 1.56, 1.43, 0.91
