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Linus And Alan Settle On A New VM System

Posted by timothy on from the imagine-this-was-about-windows-developers dept.

stylewagon writes: "ZDNet are reporting that Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox have finally agreed on which Virtual Memory manager to include in future kernel releases. Both have agreed to use the newer VM, written by Andrea Arcangeli, from kernel version 2.4.10 onwards. Read more in the article."

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  1. More information is available: by ssimpson · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    At eWeek.

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    "Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know."
  2. This article is a joke... by Juju · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    It claims that SuSE is a US company (funny how I could have sworn it was German ;o)
    It also says that Alan Cox will take over 2.4 once 2. 5 is opened which is wrong...

    The whole war story is totally ridiculous. There has never been a talk about a fork. All there was were discussions of whether a new VM should be brought in 2.4 instead of 2.5, and some talk about the validity of benchmarks showing the improvements with the new VM.

    I guess there is not much going on in the news for them to feel like writing about this...
    Besides, this is nothing new since Alan Cox sayed that his last ac patch would probably be the last one with the old VM.

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  3. the way i heard it was resolved was... by motherhead · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    Linus and Alan had their wrists taped together and sort of danced/knife fought while eddy van halen played guitar in the background...

    oh wait that was a michael jackson video... sorry... though still this might be as accurate as anything else...

  4. one heck of a daily commute: by Bazman · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    "Cox, who also works for Red Hat, in Durham, N.C., and lives in Swansea, Wales."

  5. Re:sensation seekers by hconnellan · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Read about the big news on 5/6 Nov. Alan is installing windows. Alan's diary

  6. Re:Yeah! by SubtleNuance · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hmm. Maybe I've been reading too many romance novels lately...

    What? You read romance "novels"?

    Ill be reporting you to CommanderTaco for proper reeducation if this is confirmed. We will have to confiscate, and burn of course, every romance "novel" you own and re-issue you a library of SciFi proper... do not dispare commrade - THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU YET!

  7. what crack are you smoking? by InfinityEdge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    $ uname -a
    FreeBSD ***.***.*** 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #6

    $ /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-internal-****
    Classic VM (build 1.3.1-internal-****, green threads, nojit)

    All I had to do was to download the tarball from sun into the ports directory and do your standard make, make install (you have to specifically download the file due to sun's fubared licensing). This took all of 15min to do and works great (just finished a CS project using it, javac, JavaCUP, and JLex).

    The ports directory is your friend.

    --InfinityEdge

  8. Crack makes me lazy, why is sun such a Nazi? by TurboRoot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As of just a few months ago, we had to download the sdk from sun. Than apply a series of patches, than do a hopeless compile that never worked due to some reason or another. It usually failed due to some X library or another, which sucked because all we wanted to run was Orion.

    The ports entry for it is rather recent, and I am happy that you pointed it out to me. Just goes to prove how FreeBSD is always improving and evolving over a matter of months instead of years.

    Another question is this, why is sun such a nazi about its jdk? It would be incredibly nice to be able to "fetch" the jdk instead of creating an account on sun just to download it.