Linux kernel, 2.1.131, is released. | Linux Today

Linux kernel, 2.1.131, is released.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 3, 1998
Linux kernel version 2.1.131 has been released.  It is available from:

Patch:      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/patch-2.1.131.gz
Full source:    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/linux-2.1.131.tar.gz

Sizes in bytes          Compressed  Uncompressed
------------------------------------------------------------
Patch                                51532            177079
Full source                       12518811          52920320

Linus Torvalds
writes:

2.1.131 is out there now – and will be the last kernel release
for a while. I’m going to Finland for a week and a half, and will
be back mid December. During that time I hope people will beat on
this. I’ll be able to read email when I’m gone, but as I haven’t
been back in over a year, I’m not very likely to.

Alan, I have got any replies (positive or negative) about the
VFS fixes in pre-2.1.131-3 (which are obviously in the real 131
too), so I hope that means that I successfully fixed all
filesystems. The chance of that being true is remote, but hey, I
can hope. If not, I assume you’ll be doing your ac patches anyway
(any bugs wrt rmdir() should be fairly obvious once seen), and
people might as well consider those official..

        Linus

Web Webster

Web Webster

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