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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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  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