<quote who="DaZZa"> > > 2.4.10 is the controversial Andrea VM kernel. I've been running the SGI CVS > > Whatever that means in English. :-) > > > tree at this version for some time, and it works very nicely. Jaq has > > mentioned that 2.4.8 is his favourite though (SGI CVS too), which was pre > > 2.4.10-pre10 with the Rik van Riel VM. > > Jeff, do you _ever_ speak plain english? :-)
:( Andrea Arcangeli is the hacker behind the new Virtual Memory subsystem in Linux (he releases yet another tree referred to as the -aa tree, much like Alan Cox's -ac releases). http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20011001_135.html#4 SGI provide a number of trees in their own CVS, including patched and updated kernels for MIPS architecture and their XFS filesystem. Jaq (Jamie Wilkinson) and I both use XFS, because we're... I dunno, groovier than ext2 or something (XFS ROCKS MY SOCKS). Rik van Riel is the wunderkid (working at Conectiva in Brazil) who wrote the original flavour 2.4 VM. Linus replaced this with Andrea's at 2.4.10-pre10, which Alan blessed as 2.5 in disguise. Rik and Andrea love each other very much, and talk like old pals on the kernel list (non-English speakers: they're prone to a bit of flamage now and then). > I'm trying to stick to the kernel tree's provided by SuSE, because they > have all the extra bits the distribution relies on built in already. Generally a good idea. > I've got a choice of 2.4.7 {working, but still with occasional lockups due > to kernel paging requests going bye-bye - less than 2.4.4 did though}, or > 2.4.10 {which I'm busily downloading now, but am unsure if I really wanna > install}. > > Seeing as you're hard core debian, I doubt anything except saying "I'm > switching to Debian tomorrow" would enable you to give me more information > than you already have. :) Bugger off! :) Linux is Linux, and we all have the same kernel! (WEEEELL...) At the moment, I'm locked into a Linus kernel with XFS, as SGI don't support Alan's tree. It's pure enough. [ I don't use a Debian kernel, I installed Red Hat 7.2 the other day to check out the awesome stuff the Red Hat hackers have been doing with their GNOME, and I don't hand people Debian when they're first starting out. I wear the MARK OF THE BIGOT on a tshirt sometimes though. ] - Jeff -- 100% Pure Slashdot Wisdom: "Source code gives a whole new meaning to free software." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
