Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@xxxxxxx>]

* Lee O'Malley <tracerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Nov 03. 2001 01:20]:
> On Friday 02 November 2001 01:34 pm, Mads Martin Joergensen, went on 
> about:
> > * Herman Knief <herman@xxxxxxxxx> [Nov 02. 2001 04:34]:
> > > concept..  unfortunately, it doesn't work.  I personally, much
> > > prefer the model of 2.2.x, unfortunately I need some of the
> > > features of 2.4, so
> >
> > The model Linus incorporated from Andrea Arcangeli resembles 2.2.x
> > quite a lot, so run a kernel >= 2.4.12
> --------------------------------
> So Mantel and SuSE both use the Linus version of the kernel and not the 
> Alan Cox version?  I understand the Linus version uses the newly 
> rewritten VM which fixes a lot of things, but I don't remember at which 
> kernel revision he started using it, seems like 2.4.10 and up is the 
> new fixed version of VM, is that right Mads?

Yes, that is correct. The SuSE kernel is of course also enhanced with
extra stuff from SuSE Labs.

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