Linus And Alan Settle On A New VM System

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."

Comments

What is a vm?

[Manes]

Anyone care to give a short explanation on what this system is?

I've always been interesting in kernel coding, but some of the concepts sound pretty black-magic for me :)

Re:What is a vm?

[Isle]

In case you dont know:
You REALLY dont want to know!! Just enjoy or go back to Windows ;-)

Re:sensation seekers

[Ardax]

I don't know why this got modded funny. I can't get a Windows installation back to full usability for at least three days, and that's assuming that I've done the Great Internet Driver Hunt beforehand.

Sure Windows and drivers only take a few hours, but then you have to tweak it up so it's not walking with 4 toes on each foot and make sure you don't take off a leg in the process.

Then you start installing applications:

void install_program(void) {
run_installer();
reboot();
while (! last_update()) && (reboot_count 0x10) {
install_update();
reboot();
}
}

void main(void) {
while (! last_program()) && (reboot_count 1e10) {
install_program();
reboot();
}
}

That's why it takes forever.

Yes, one could argue that doing your own Linux "from scratch" would take longer (especially if you want to compile XFree), but if you have good file management, you don't have to rebuild linux every 3 months to keep it running smoothly.