[TriLUG] upgrade to 2.4.17!

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 11:54, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> Its about freaking time.  I was initially kind of skeptical when linus
> chose to rip out the memory stuff and replace it after release but now I
> see the wisdom in it.  All of those folks posting performance tests have
> missed the point.  

Actually, the way I heard it was that Linus was applying Rik's patches
haphazardly, picking and choosing, and that was why the VM was so
broken.  AA's VM may work okay, but I don't think there was anything
fundamentally wrong with Rik's (except in how it was applied to released
kernels).  I also think Rik's new VM (the reverse mapping VM based on
similar BSD work) holds a lot more promise than anything else out
there...

Tanner
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