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User-Mode Linux Merged Into 2.5 Kernel
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.
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.'
Finally, something that will get Linux accepted as a viable desktop operating system for all levels of users!
-- "Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage." -Naomi Littlebear
Well it does say "run buggy software" :)
A Beowu*smack* ow.
Cheers
Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
First off, you are comparing two things not of similar function. Second, a lot of Word's functionality is also included in shared DLLs- that same winword.exe file won't run if you shove it on a bare machine. Third, you can rebuild the kernel to be as large or as small as you want (functionality-wise, which also affects kernel size). Red Hat's kernel is not the 'official' kernel, so it is misleading to say that the Linux kernel is now larger than the Microsoft Word executable.
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By calling it "User-Mode GNU/Linux" you get a four-letter-acronym ("UMGL") which does not spread confusion.
One of the great things about UML - unlike a lot of other OSS projects - is that it's very well documented. Thanks to the UML diagrams on UML, there is no confusion as to what UML is or what it does.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
To keep those little brilliant (bastard) children from wrecking your shiny new Linux lab.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
# rm -rf / ;-)
Why would you want do delete the winky tree??
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