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    [PATCH] Linux-0.97.3 (September 5, 1992) · fdb2f0a5
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Hey, we switched to the GPL several months ago, but only now do we
    include the license text itself.  Apparently everybody expected
    everybody else to just know what the GPL was..
    
    Add a README on compiling the kernel (by Lasu)
    
    Add PS/2 mouse driver, make generic "mouse" infrastructure.
    
    Add /proc filesystem, clean up minixfs block mapping.
    
    sys_wait4() and swapoff().
    
    VM gets a "secondary page free" list for things like interrupts
    that want a page _now_ and can't wait for the regular free list
    to fill up.
    
    [Original announcement below]
    
    Patch3 is almost 100kB even compressed, as there were quite big changes
    in the mm and minix fs.  No major new features: there are two new system
    calls: swapoff(const char * swapfile) and wait4(), and linux accepts
    several swap-files, but the rest of the thing is mostly bug-fixes or
    simply rewrites.
    
    Major changes:
     - new swap-page handling: linux no longer uses just one bit to keep
       track of used swap-space, but a counter for each...
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