All right: it's three days late, but finally 0.95 has been sent to
nic.funet.fi. As usual, it will probably take a few days to find it's
way into a readable directory, so don't start ftp'ing right now. I'm
sure arl will inform people when it's available.
I'm also pretty sure there will be problems setting things up again:
some things have changed, and the docs are up to their usual wonderful
standard. For people that have used 0.12, there shouldn't be too many
surprises, although the new harddisk names/numbers can be confusing.
Many bugs have been corrected, but there are probably new ones that have
taken their place.
One bad thing with the new setup (which will confuse new users) is that
the rootdisk finally got too small for everything, and compress+tar
aren't on the disk any more. Talk about confusing, but if you have 0.12
installed on your system, everything should be mostly a case of "boot
from floppy, drop in the new things, and reboot with the harddisk".
Re: patches. There were 5 major patches (VC's, VFS, swapon, ptrace and
faster floppies) that were installed, and of these only ptrace and VC's
got installed without any major changes (pmacdona has had three releases
to learn my coding style, and it seems to have paid off :). The other
patches are so heavily edited as to be totally unrecognizeable, and I
expect my changes weren't always for the better: but I'd rather be
over-conservative than use a patch even if it's great. I expect they
will still have to be edited, and hope none of the authors mind me
changing their code heavily (sorry also to all those that have used the
VFS routines: they'll have to wait for the next release before getting
all the functionality in the alpha-VFS patches.)
Re: recompiling the kernel. I've used most of the last week to make the
kernel compileable by gcc-2, as that is what I use now. The bootimage
I've made available is compiled totally with 2.0, and the source-files
are set up for that compiler. For people without gcc-2, t...
