Linux 1.3.51 aka "Greased Weasel"

Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Wed, 27 Dec 1995 09:06:14 +0200


I just made the new "Greased Weasel (tm)" release of linux available on
the normal ftp sites. This release cleans up some of the memory
management speedups, and generally acts like its name.

At least for me.

I'd be interested to hear comments about the new kernel, especially on
low-memory systems (ie 4-8MB). I know I could use the "mem=6M" switch
to test it out myself, but I keep telling myself that I have a lot of
testers who have nothing better to do than make me happy. Right? ("Yes
Master").

Anyway, most of the patches in this release are actually for various
network things (alias code, ipx, packetwin driver), but the interesting
(for me) patches are hidden in the mm/buffer code. I have some
benchmarks that make 1.3.51 look very good indeed, but benchmarks and
real life aren't necessarily the same thing. Comments?

Linus