The Xen virtual machine monitor was recently merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 Linux kernel in a series of patches from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. The project was originally started as a research project at the University of Cambridge, and has been repeatedly discussed as a merge candidate for the mainline Linux kernel.
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Member since:2006-06-03
I agree that 'into' isn't very expressive or informative when taken out of context.
But this style of linking relies on context. Therefore links in the sentence: '...Xen...was recently merged into the ... linux kernel' will point to articles/resources that adress this subject.
It is a means of very concisely disseminating links to many information sources in an intuitive manner.
By scanning the summary, I can see that there are links to information about:
the XEN-Kernel merge.
The pertinant kernel release
background about XEN.
some debate about whether XEN belongs in the kernel.
And I can choose which aspects of the news story to learn more about. Granted, it takes some getting used to, but once you've learned the skill of parsing these links, the format becomes very information-dense, a good thing for a news aggregation site.
What would be nice is for one link in each story to be visually different from the others as a form of (subjectively decided) master-link to the most relevant supporting-article.
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2007-03-30
Alas "into" just isn't an obvious enough subject to make sense to me as a link.
Slashdot pioneered this link-every-word stuff. They'd link "into" as well, except they'd probably send it to dictionary.com.