Download of VANILLA Kernel-2.6.12.2

[Benjamin Duehring]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 07:13, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> did somebody try to download the most recent VANILLA kernel 2.6.12.2 by
> Firefox using the URL ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 ?
> Then this URL shows wrong creation dates (year 2004) for the version
> 2.6.12.2. This behaviour exists either in FC4 Firefox or in the WIN
> firefox (I think this is related to Firefox, not to FC4).
>
> --
> Best regards
>
> Joachim Backes <backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK],
> Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing,
> D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany
> --------------------------------------------------
> Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056
> http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

Hi,

I can confirm this problem. It's related to Firefox. 
In the newest nightly build (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; 
rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050706 Firefox/1.0+) this problem does not occur anymore:
linux-2.6.12.2.tar.bz2  	36627 KB  	30.06.2005  	00:11:00

Kind regards, 

Benjamin Duehring, FORWISS|
Universitaet Passau       | Priv. e-mail : duehring at forwiss.uni-passau.de
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