RE: Maintainers master list?

2001-06-26 Thread Holzrichter, Bruce
>What happens now when somebody takes over responsibility for a file >or subsystem and the MAINTAINERS file doesn't get patched, either because >that person forgets to send a MAINTAINERS update or Linus doesn't >happen to take the MAINTAINERS patch for a while? >What happens when I look at a fi

RE: Maintainers master list?

2001-06-22 Thread Holzrichter, Bruce
>I have proposed that the MAINTAINERS file should be replaced by >metadata markup in the kernel sources themselves, distributed so that >it will naturally be kept up to date by the people named in it and >mechanically gathered into a generated MAINTAINERS at make dep time. >I still think this is

RE: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-22 Thread Holzrichter, Bruce
>Did I mention I'm writing a book on all this? (The history of linux and the >computer industry, going back to World War II...) This makes me the only >person I know who's excited about finding ~50 issues of "Compute" and >"Compute's gazette" from the mid 80's at a garage sale. An the univ

RE: is there a linux running on jvm arch ?

2001-06-20 Thread Holzrichter, Bruce
>I 've tested the User Mode Linux a few times ago, and it gave me an >idea: given the fact that we had a GCC which >produce bytecode from C, it would be possible to produce a port of >linux(a new directory "jvm" in the arch dir) which >would run in a Java Virtual Machine. (after some inquiries