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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:49:26 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, bill davidsen wrote:

>   I can't disagree with Rik on the VM in the unpatched kernel for
> several months. It really was not good, and both the -ac and -aa kernels
> were taking aim at that problem. IMHO the changes went in before the
> bugs went out. Needless to say Rik should not apply for a job as a
> diplomat, but I can't disagree with the existance of a problem.

Good thing I'm a programmer, I'm allowed to say ambiguous
stuff on IRC. If I were a diplomat, I'd only be allowed
to unambiguously say nothing.

> If RH uses a custom VM he was factual about that, although there may
> be several reasons for the choice.

I've tried to be as factual as possible; I've also learnt
that articles and IRC really use a different kind of
language ... some of the things I said turned out pretty
ambiguous ;)

>   Maybe we could deflect the pissing contest back to technical
> discussion now?

I've released rmap-11c today ;)

cheers,

Rik
-- 
"Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS"
    -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document

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