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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.

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  1. Woah by Clue4All · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The merge followed a patch by UML author Jeff Dike

    Shit, so Linux really is for lesbians?

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  2. Acronym Warning by Groovus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    UML - I'm afraid Booch et. al. may have a problem with someone else coopting that acronym. Not that I think it's right, but I can see some confusion resulting....

  3. Now to get MAC's merged in. by dapantzman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If we could get some of the stuff NSA has been working on merged in we could really make 2.5 lookin sharp.

    The DCLUG had a great speaker from NAI labs give a talk on their contributions to SELINUX. Mandatory Access Controls looked like something GNU/Linux could really use.

    One day.

  4. Re:UML = Unified Modeling Language by Wdomburg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > In many cases, the same TLA has more than one
    > meaning, so the users of the acronym are able to
    > keep the context straight.

    Hear, hear! People should really make more judicous use of ETLAs instead.

    Matt

  5. Re:Well documented. by zapfie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Score of 0? 0?

    -1, maybe.

    Sheesh.

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