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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. 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...

  2. 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."