From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available Date: 16 Sep 1992 12:11:37 GMT
In article <1992Sep12.182131.2168@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>
>In case people are wondering, my schedule for 1.0 looks something like
>this:
>
> - 0.98 out in about a week: this is essentially 0.97.5 + the tcp/ip
> directory, as well as any fixes that may come up. I'll try to get
> the loadable driver interface into it too.
>
> - 0.99 out after 0.98 has been shaken down: a month or so.
>
> - 1.0 will be the same as 0.99: the only changes will be eventual
> trivial bug-fixes in case 0.99 has some problems. This is just to
> try to get over the "X.0" bug syndrome.
>
I would very much like to see a DOS emulator as part of 1.0. I would
also like to see truely independent VC's, such that X can run on one
and another serve as a text terminal. Along the same lines, is there
an IOCTL to get the raw state of the keyboard? If not, I'd like to
see that for 1.0.
I know the DOS emulator requires some thought. I don't know how
difficuly the last item is, but I know there's code available from CMU
to save and restore SVGA terminals.
-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)