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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. Re:Big split? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    Recall that "Linux" is owned by Linus. It's not inconceivable to envision a pissing match of the egos ending in "Cox' "rogue" kernel isn't true Linux. Rename it." one day.

    Yea, but then they'd have to call it "Coxux" and they'd never get that past the censors.


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  2. Re:Wondering... by rusty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh...

    HEY! Wait a minute!

    I *knew* I'd never live down that linux.conf.au talk 8(