Re: Linux 2.0
jerijian@seas.ucla.edu
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 19:21:56 -0700 (PDT)
Arno PAHLER wrote:
>
> Just say NO - to Linux 2.0 - I am logged in to my linux machines at work
> from home - just downloaded 13 from ftp.funet.fi - all compiled well -
> rebooted well - and now it seems to be eating the first character of
> everything - starting with the login prompt - ls (an alias in tcsh) gives
> a blank screen - /bin/ls produces some junk (a few garbled characters) -
> 1.99.12 was perfect minutes before - this happens on 3 different machines -
> I am logged in to a Sun via kermit on go from there to my linux machines.
> 12 was perfect (for me - except for the mmap patch which did some good),
> so was 11, so was 10, so was 9, so was .... - pre2.0.13 aka Linux 2.0
> is worse than Windows 95 :-) - "may God strike you down".
>
> I'll see what the screens say, when I get to work and sit right at the
> console.
Before you look down so much upon Linux, I'd just like to
let you know that pre2.0.14 fixes this bug.
>
> Arno
>
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