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User-Mode Linux Merged Into 2.5 Kernel

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the more-linux-in-your-linux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With little fanfare, User Mode-Linux (UML) has been merged into Linus' BitKeeper tree. The merge followed a patch by UML author Jeff Dike, resynching UML with the 2.5.34 development kernel. From the UML homepage, User-Mode Linux provides you with a virtual machine that offers 'a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup.'" There's more UML resources available at the community site.

3 of 247 comments (clear)

  1. linux is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What a waste of development effort on a copycat OS. Real programmers hack BSD.

  2. double the crash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ha ha, now leenEWx can crash in user-land as well as kernel-land. leenEWx is such an abomination on computer science. It's a shame that anyone could waste so much time in this year 2002 and still not have a stable vm under load nor a robust filesystem.

  3. yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who wants to run linux on linux? Running BSD on BSD would be much more interesting and it might even be stable.