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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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>Kernel Patches and Change Logs</H3>
<p><strong>From John Covici on Sun, 11 Jul 1999
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Hi. I found your link at <a href="http://www.linuxhq.com/">linuxhq.com</a>
and I would like to ask a question to which I have not been able to get an
answer after much looking.
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Where can I look at changelogs for recent kernels (2.3.x and maybe
2.2.x)? I looked in the patches themselves, at linuxhq.com, at
<a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/">freshmeat.net</a> (which has so much
that I may not have completely searched it) and Linux Documentation Project.
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I hope you can answer me individually -- thanks so much for your help.
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John Covici
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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The Linux kernel changelogs are rather informally
maintained. Brief summaries can be found at:
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Cutting Edge:
<dd><A HREF="http://edge.kernelnotes.org"
>http://edge.kernelnotes.org</A>
</dl></BLOCKQUOTE>
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... while more detailed information can be found
in the patches themselves. There is a "Patch Browser"
which allows you to preview the diffs (patches) using
a web browser. This is obviously only useful for
glancing through the list, guesstimating the impact of
the changes based on the various sizes of various
patch files to various files, and or reading the changes
to the various README, CHANGES, and Documentation/*
files.
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The Patch Browser can be found at:
<dd><A HREF="http://www.kernelnotes.org"
>http://www.kernelnotes.org</A>
(sort of formerly <A HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com"
>http://www.linuxhq.com</A>)
</dl></BLOCKQUOTE>
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For unofficial (non-mainstream) patches the best
site I've found is:
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The Linux Kernel Patch Archive
<DD><A HREF="http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com"
>http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com</A>
</DL></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE><dl><dt>
Rock Projects seems to have their own Linux
distribution available:
<dd><A HREF="http://linux.rock-projects.com"
>http://linux.rock-projects.com</A>
</dl></BLOCKQUOTE>
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This seems to be in beta --- and it seems to be
targeted to very techie users. If you're the sort of
person that takes a <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>
installation, changes to the <TT>/ports</TT> directory and types:
'<tt>make world</tt>' than this
might be the Linux distribution for you. You can
download all 200Mb of this, or send the author
$8 U.S. and he'll send you a CD. (Note: actually
it seems he'll use the Australian equivalent of
C.O.D. if you're in a place where that's possible for
him, which apparently doesn't include the U.S.).
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Naturally you can learn more about Rock Projects at
their master web site: <A HREF="http://www.rock-projects.com"
>http://www.rock-projects.com</A>
(He seems to like using lots of "hostnames" as
psuedo-URLs --- I'm guessing these are mostly virtual
hosted off of one system).
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There used to be a nice collection of unofficial patches
at:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><DL><DT>
Linux Mama
<DD><A HREF="http://www.linuxmama.com"
>http://www.linuxmama.com</A>
</DL></BLOCKQUOTE>
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However, this seems to have fallen into decay. Apparently
Kurt Hewig (the original maintainer of Linux Mama)
got busy with other matters and no longer has time for
these. The old patches are still there. They just haven't
been updated in about a year.
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