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We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.1.5 stable release. Many bugs have been fixed since the last release, so we recommend you upgrade. The major features of this release are:
* Better performance * Shared memory support * Open Source Sound System (OSSv4) * Network card autodetection (for supported cards) and improved network configuration * More ports: PostgresSQL, QEMU, Sudo, more recent OpenSSH * And more...
> We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.1.5 stable release. Many bugs
> have been fixed since the last release, so we recommend you upgrade.
> The major features of this release are:
> * Better performance
> * Shared memory support
> * Open Source Sound System (OSSv4)
> * Network card autodetection (for supported cards) and improved
> network configuration
> * More ports: PostgresSQL, QEMU, Sudo, more recent OpenSSH
> * And more...
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Arun Thomas <arun.tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.1.5 stable release. Many bugs
> have been fixed since the last release, so we recommend you upgrade.
> The major features of this release are:
> * Better performance
> * Shared memory support
> * Open Source Sound System (OSSv4)
> * Network card autodetection (for supported cards) and improved
> network configuration
> * More ports: PostgresSQL, QEMU, Sudo, more recent OpenSSH
> * And more...
I had a quick question:
Release notes for 3.1.4 say that one of the new features included is
"Virtual Memory Support".
What exactly did this mean?
I do understand what Virtual Memory means, but there could be different
variations. Hence my question.
My understanding was that even 3.1.3 (even 3.1.0 book version for that
matter) supported virtual memory, i.e. per-process address space (per
process CR3, page table, pages, etc.). But this is just my definition of
virtual memory.
Thx, Jon
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Arun Thomas <arun.tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.1.5 stable release. Many bugs
> have been fixed since the last release, so we recommend you upgrade.
> The major features of this release are:
> * Better performance
> * Shared memory support
> * Open Source Sound System (OSSv4)
> * Network card autodetection (for supported cards) and improved
> network configuration
> * More ports: PostgresSQL, QEMU, Sudo, more recent OpenSSH
> * And more...
> My understanding was that even 3.1.3 (even 3.1.0 book version for that > matter) supported virtual memory, i.e. per-process address space (per > process CR3, page table, pages, etc.).
Nope, paging-based virtual memory was introduces in 3.1.4 and that was the _big_ change. It replaced segmentation-only based virtual memory of previous versions. People tend not to call using segments-only virtual memory. Also paging has more meaning and hence the confusion.
Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: >> We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.1.5 stable release.
> May I know what "The current experimental MINIX release > is: n/a." means?
Sure. N/A stands for not applicable. There's no experimental release out there currently; there's just the stable one. We could probably come up with a clearer designation.
>> May I know what "The current experimental MINIX release >> is: n/a." means? > Sure.
Thank you very much.
More basic questions: is Minix 3.1.5 the "kernel" or the "whole system" (aka. distribution)? What are you going to call the kernel build 5617? Minix 3.1.6 experimantal?
> More basic questions: is Minix 3.1.5 the "kernel" or the "whole > system" (aka. distribution)? What are you going to call the kernel > build 5617? Minix 3.1.6 experimantal?
Minix 3.1.5 refers to the ISO image, including the base system and packages. The SVN trunk revision (r5617) is not for widespread consumption; it's for people who want to run the bleeding-edge code. When the SVN trunk stabilizes a bit, we'll release a beta/experimental ISO for widespread testing. We'll call it Minix 3.1.6. I hope that clears things up a bit.
Some additional notes: * /etc/issue still has "this snapshot is an interim release". * Step 2: what is full install? * Step 8: AMD Lance (on VMPlayer 3.0 guest) WAS detected!
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