Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

Rik van Riel
2002-01-17T19:50:04Z

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
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