Re: Curious

Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Wed, 19 May 1999 20:35:04 +0200

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On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:40:12AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just curious: Why isn't the 2.3 kernel rewritten from scratch as 2.1
> was?

Because 2.1 was _NOT_ rewritten from scratch just like 2.3! Where did you
get that foolish idea from anyway? Just check some of the copyrights in
the latest kernels, they go back to 1991 (eg in console.c)...

Yours,
Dominik Kubla

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