linux-kernel - Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?

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Message-ID: <20080321173415.GB1434@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:34:15 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: what's with the "pre-releases" directory?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:13:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   just curious about this:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/pre-releases

These were the -test kernels that preceeded 2.6.0.

> given that it seems filled with really old 2.6.0 content, what's the
> value in it?  just curious.

just curious about this:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic

given that it seems filled with really old content, what's the
value in it?  just curious.

;-)

> rday

cu
Adrian

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