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The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-forward-off dept.

Motor writes "It seems that (as everyone suspected), the 2.5 Linux kernel tree is close to opening. However, contrary to expectations, 2.4 will not be maintained by Alan Cox, but will instead be handled by Marcelo Tosatti. Thanks to Alan for all his hard work on 2.0 and 2.2."

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  1. Ext3/JBD by Alan+Cox · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ext3 stuff is scheduled for merging soon. The VM is simply more important, and as of 2.4.14pre7 basically works (there are a couple of corner cases left where it fails) - and is much faster than the older Riel VM. That was a concluded experiment anyway

    RH doesn't get to decide what I feed to Linus,and Linus wouldn't listen if they did. XFS is 2.5 material certainly. JFS I don't know - Im watching it with great interest.

    Alan

  2. Re:Where did linus say this on lkml?? by Alan+Cox · · Score: 5, Informative

    I wanted to work more on other stuff. We both felt Marcelo was a great choice and Marcelo wanted to be 2.4 maintainer

  3. Re:New Maintainer weblog? - karma whoring at 50.. by iamsure · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since you asked, and everyone else will want to know..

    Here is some info on our new maintainer..

    Marcelo works for Connectiva. He lives with "Rik". He looks like this.

    His weblog is here.
    His "homepage" area is here

    And I gotta say.. impressive to get that level of responsibility at his age..

    --
    GPL'd web-based tradewars themed space game