Re: 2.3.0 kernel - announce??

mike burrell (mikpos@mikpos.dyndns.org)
Wed, 12 May 1999 19:52:43 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 12 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

| In that case, why does 2.2.8 and 2.3.0 have different sizes, and
| different times for the most recently modified file therein?
|
| Courtesy my Linux Kernel Versions list:
|
| Q> 11,212,277 Tue 11 May 1999 18:37 linux-2.2.8.tar.bz2
| Q> 11,208,792 Tue 11 May 1999 21:05 linux-2.3.0.tar.bz2
|
| Note that the 2.3.0 archive is some 3.5k smaller than the 2.2.8 one,
| and also has at least one file that was updated over 2 hours later
| than any file in the 2.2.8 archive...

It could be bzip2 simply "clicking" because of the coincidental arrangement
of strings. Who cares? All you have to do is download the patch to see
nothing has changed.

m i k e b u r r e l l
mikpos@home.com
http://mikpos.dyndns.org

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