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Linus Torvalds authored
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CHANGES since 0.99 patchlevel 15: - removed all the bugs, of course. - networking fixes. - more changes than I really wanted.. [original announcement below] Linux 1.0---A better UNIX than Windows NT Summary: Linux 1.0 released Keywords: Linux Kernel 1.0 Academy Awards X-Moderator-Added-Keywords: universe, end of Finally, here it is. Almost on time (being just two years late is peanuts in the OS industry), and better than ever: Linux kernel release 1.0 This release has no new major features compared to the pl15 kernels, but contains lots and lots of bugfixes: all the major ones are gone, the smaller ones are hidden better. Hopefully there are no major new ones. The Linux kernel can be found as source on most of the Linux ftp-sites under the names linux-1.0.tar.gz (full source) linux-1.0.patch.pl15.gz (patch against linux-0.99pl15) linux-1.0.patch.alpha.gz (patch from linux-pre-1.0) it should be available at least at the sites ftp.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus (now) sunsite.unc.ed: pub/Linux/Incoming (now) pub/Linux/kernel (soon) tsx-11.mit.edu: pub/linux/sources/system (soon) ftp.cs.helsinki.fi: pub/Software/Linux/Kernel (now) This release finally moves Linux out of Beta status and is meant as a base for distributions to build on. It will neither change Linux' status as FreeWare under the GPL, nor will it mean the end of development on Linux. In fact many new features where held back for later releases so that 1.0 could become a well tested and hopefully stable release. The Linux kernel wouldn't be where it is today without the help of lots of people: the kernel developers, the people who did user-level programs making linux useful, and the brave and foolhardy people who risked their harddisks and sanity to test it all out. My thanks to you all. (Editorial note: if you think this sounds too much like the Academy Awards ceremony, just skip this: it's not getting any better.) Thanks to people like Aaron Kushner, Danny ter Haar and the authors of the AnwenderHandbuch (and others) who have helped me with hardware or monetary donations (and to the Oxford Beer Trolls and others who took care of the drinkware). And thanks to Dirk, who helped me write this announcement despite my lazyness ("hey, it's just another release, who needs an announcement anyway?"). To make a long and boring story a bit shorter and boring, here is at least a partial list of people who have been helping make Linux what it is today. Thanks to you all, Krishna Balasubramanian <balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu> Arindam Banerji <axb@cse.nd.edu> Peter Bauer <100136.3530@compuserve.com> Fred Baumgarten <dc6iq@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de> Donald Becker <becker@super.org> Stephen R. van den Berg <berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Hennus Bergman <hennus@sky.nl.mugnet.org> Ross Biro <bir7@leland.Stanford.Edu> Bill Bogstad <bogstad@cs.jhu.edu> John Boyd <boyd@cis.ohio-state.edu> Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> Remy Card <Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr> Ed Carp <ecarp@netcom.com> Raymond Chen <raymondc@microsoft.com> Alan Cox <iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk> Laurence Culhane <loz@holmes.demon.co.uk> Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com> Thomas Dunbar <tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu> Torsten Duwe <Torsten.Duwe@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Drew Eckhardt <drew@cs.Colorado.EDU> Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se> Doug Evans <dje@cygnus.com> Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> Juergen Fischer <fischer@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@sw.oz.au> Ralf Flaxa <rfflaxa@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Nigel Gamble <nigel%gamble.uucp@gate.net> Philip Gladstone <philipg@onsett.com> Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> Andrew Haylett <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk> Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Nick Holloway <alfie@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Ron Holt <ron@novell.com> Rob W. W. Hooft <hooft@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@sunsite.unc.edu> Fred N. van Kempen <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> Olaf Kirch <okir@monad.swb.de> Ian Kluft <ikluft@thunder.sbay.org> Rudolf Koenig <rfkoenig@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Bas Laarhoven <bas@vimec.nl> Warner Losh <imp@boulder.parcplace.com> H.J. Lu <hjl@nynexst.com> Tuomas J. Lukka <Tuomas.Lukka@Helsinki.FI> Kai M"akisara <Kai.Makisara@vtt.fi> Pat Mackinlay <pat@it.com.au> John A. Martin <jmartin@csc.com> Bradley McLean <brad@bradpc.gaylord.com> Craig Metz <cmetz@tjhsst.edu> William (Bill) Metzenthen <billm@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Rick Miller <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Corey Minyard <minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com> Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de> Ian A. Murdock <imurdock@shell.portal.com> Johan Myreen <jem@vipunen.hut.fi> Stefan Probst <snprobst@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@bucknell.edu> Florian La Roche <rzsfl@rz.uni-sb.de> Robert Sanders <gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu> Peter De Schrijver <stud11@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be> Darren Senn <sinster@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us> Chris Smith <csmith@convex.com> Drew Sullivan <drew@lethe.north.net> Tommy Thorn <Tommy.Thorn@daimi.aau.dk> Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es> Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Simmule Turner <simmy@digex.com> Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Thomas Uhl <uhl@sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de> Juergen Weigert <jnweiger@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Matt Welsh <mdw@sunsite.unc.edu> Marco van Wieringen <mvw@mercury.mcs.nl.mugnet.org> Stephen D. Williams <sdw@lig.net> G\"unter Windau <gunter@mbfys.kun.nl> Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi> Roger E. Wolff <wolff@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl> Frank Xia <qx@math.columbia.edu> Eric Youngdale <eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil> Orest Zborowski <orestz@microsoft.com> A more detailed list with contact and description information can be found in the CREDITS file that accompanies the kernel sources.
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few unimportant floating point instructions (i287 instructions that are No-Ops on the i387, so "emulating" them is easy :^) and fixes a silly bug when mmap'ing stuff write-only. It also fixes a buggy lock in the networking.
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sbpcd (Sound Blaster Pro CD interface) driver. Andries Brouwer cleans up and re-does keyboard driver diacritical handling. Lots of new sound drivers. Sysvfs added (Xenix, SystemV/386 and Coherent support). Linux was starting to have a lot of users move over.. MAP_ANONYMOUS flag added to mmap(). Loadable modules added. Alan Cox is active in networking. [original changelog below] Linux 0.99.15 released: Codefreeze for 1.0 People who look into my directory on ftp.funet.fi will already have noticed that the latest version of linux (0.99.15) is available, and I assume it will be available on most other linux sites soon. As explained in a previous announcement, 0.99.15 is "it", in that this will be the base for 1.0 after about a month of testing. No further patches are accepted until the 1.0 release, unless they obviously fix a serious bug. **** NOTE 1 **** For this code-freeze to be effective yet still potential bugs be found, testing is needed, along with good reports of errors and problems. Thus, nobody should think "hey, the *real* release will be out in a month, let's wait for that", but instead think: "hey, I'd better test this one, so that the *real* release won't result in any ugly surprises for me". In short: test it out, preferably even more than you usually do. Run "crashme" for the whole month if you have the CPU-power to spare, and/or just misuse your machine as badly as you can. And if there are problems, report them to me (and the better the report, the more likely I am to be able to do something about it). **** NOTE 2 **** Bumping the linux version number to 1.0 doesn't mean anything more than that: it's only a version number change. More explicitly, it does *NOT* mean that linux will become commercial (the copyright will remain as-is), nor does it mean that development stops here, and that 1.0 will be anything special in that respect. I'm also afraid that just changing the version number will not make potential bugs magically disappear: this has been amply proven by various software houses over the years. This code-freeze is there in order to avoid most of the problems that people sometimes associate with "X.0 releases", and I hope that it will mean that we have a reasonably stable release that we can call 1.0 and one that I won't have to be ashamed of. Ok, enough said, I hope. The pl15 release is hopefully good, but I'll continue to make ALPHA patches against it along the whole month as problems crop up. The networking code has been much maligned, and is not perfect by far yet, but it's getting its act together thanks to various developers and testers. And as wiser men than I have said (or if they haven't, they should have): "There is life after 1.0" Any rumors that the world is coming to an end just because I'm about to release a 1.0-version are greatly exaggerated. I think. Linus ---------- Things that remained the same between 0.99.14 and 0.99.15: - I again forgot to update the README before uploading the release. In pl14, I talked about pl13, while the all new and improved README has now caught up with pl14. Remind me to buy a new brain one of these days. Changes between versions 0.99.14 and 0.99.15: - improved Pentium detection. Some of you may have had linux report your 4086DX2 as a pentium machine, but the new kernel will tell you the sad truth. Whee. - Network driver updates by Donald Becker. New drivers added, old ones updated. - FPU emulation updates by Bill Metzenthen. Various minor errors and misfeatures fixed (mostly error handling). - Support for the SoubdBlaster Pro CD-ROM driver added by Eberhard Moenkeberg. - extended support for keyboard re-definition, along with font re-programming (Eugene Crosser, Andries Brouwer et al). - tty handling fixes: true canonical mode with most features supported by Julian Cowley. This may make your canonical mode behave funnily if you happen to use old and broken programs that happened to work with the old and broken behaviour (this includes at least some 'getty' programs). - serial driver changes and tty fixes by Theodore Ts'o. - SCSI fixes by Drew Eckhardt, Eric Youngdale, Rik Faith, Kai Mdkisara et al. - Updated sound card driver to version 2.4 (Hannu Savolainen) - COFF binary loading support (but you will still need the experimental iBCS2 patches to run non-linux i386 COFF binaries) by Al Longyear. - Upgraded ext2fs filesystem routines (0.4a -> 0.4b), with new features. Read the fs/ext2/CHANGES file for details. Remy Card and Stephen Tweedie. Get a new fsck that knows about the new features. - pipe behaviour fixed in the presense of multiple writers (now actually conforms to POSIX specs about atomic writes). Much of the code by Florian Coosmann. - minix filesystem extended to support the clean flag: get a new fsck that knows about it. - System V filesystem (support for Xenix, Coherent and SysV filesystems) by Doug Evans, Paul Monday, Pascal Haible and Bruno Haible. - loadable modules (various authors, don't remember original author of the "modules" code). - Lots of networking fixes by various people: Alan Cox, Charles Hedrick, me and various other people. Non-byte-aligned networks work, and the networking code should be much stabler in general. + various bugfixes and enhacements here and there (mcd driver update by Jon Tombs, atixlmouse fix by Chris Colohan, /dev/full by XXX etc etc) All in all, the patches come out to 1.5MB uncompressed (about 400kB gzip-9'd), so there is little or no idea to make patches to plain pl14 available. Incremental patches and ALPHA-releases can be found on ftp.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/ALPHA-pl14.
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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