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- From: jpo@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
- Message-ID: <jpo.721994610@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 10:03:30 GMT
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- Hello (Linux-)world !
-
- These wishlist is especially for Linus, but it might be interesting for some
- others, too.
-
- The main point is, that there are a lot of patches floating around. Some of
- them are very interesting, but they often break with new versions (this is
- a general observation and has nothing to do with pl5, which I havn`t tried
- out yet :).
-
- I think, a lot of them are very useful for the majority of LINUX users. So
- it might be fine, to put them into the standard kernel.
- This was the general part, now the specific stuff :
-
- 1. SYSV-IPC (semaphores) implemented by balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu
- 2. selection patch
- 3. sound support
- ...
-
- Which patches should be included ?
-
- Nothing that is a special adaption to personal taste or even very country
- dependend.
- Nothing that depends on special and unusual hardware.
-
- Everything that makes LINUX a full featured UN*X system.
- Everything a lot of users might find useful (i.e. selection patch).
-
- Yes, I know Linus' point of view, but I think there are a lot of features
- already implemented, which lots of people (including me) don't know about,
- so they cant customize their own kernel (even if they know how to do this).
-
- Most of the patches don't break the standard kernel, because they are
- selectable via defines (for instance -DSELECTION).
-
- So this is a suggestion to the contributors: make your patches selectable,
- it might become easier for Linus to include them to the standard sources, if
- he can switch them off.
-
- I hope this will start a useful discussion, so please no flames.
-
- Joerg
-