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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. What is a vm? by Manes · · Score: 2, Troll

    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 :)