From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: Linux 0.95 - booting problems. Date: 10 Mar 1992 13:21:03 GMT
It seems 0.95 has enough problems with some hardware that it may not be
a good idea to upgrade right now: I'll have to find the bugs first. The
problems include things like not reading/writing the harddisk correctly,
which can result in protection errors (the executables get read in
incorrectly) and in the worst case in file-system damage. This is not
universal: on some machines linus-0.95 seems to work without problems,
others see partial problems, while still others are virtually unable to
run 0.95.
If someone will use 0.95 just to find out all the problems, I'd be
happy, but otherwise I'll try to get a new version out the door in a
week or so, which hopefully works better on more machines..
Linus "eggface" Torvalds