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Rik van Riel on Kernels, VMs, and Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Andrea Scrimieri writes " An Interesting interview with Rik van Riel, the kernel developer, in which he talks about the Linux's VM, particurarly about his own implementation (which was recently adopted in Alan Cox's tree). With some controversy towards Linus Torvalds. "

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  1. CVS isn't decent by kaisyain · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    The problem is that there isn't a decent multi-patch versioning system out there

    Uh, yes there are. Perforce, aide-de-camp, bitkeeper, and others all do this just fine. I haven't used squeak much, but I think this is also how the built-in version control in their smalltalk image works as well. Every change management system that uses changesets works pretty much exactly this way.

    CVS basically sucks, which is why some people are trying to replace it. It only gets used because it is popular and free, not because it is technically superior. The only thing it is better than is RCS/SCCS. Every other possible solution is no worse, and usually much better, than CVS.