diff --git a/extra/io/unix/linux/linux.factor b/extra/io/unix/linux/linux.factor
index 56032ad019..06380c7e1e 100755
--- a/extra/io/unix/linux/linux.factor
+++ b/extra/io/unix/linux/linux.factor
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2008 Slava Pestov.
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 IN: io.unix.linux
-USING: io.backend io.unix.backend io.unix.launcher io.unix.epoll
+USING: io.backend io.unix.backend io.unix.launcher io.unix.select
 namespaces kernel assocs unix.process ;
 
 TUPLE: linux-io ;
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ TUPLE: linux-io ;
 INSTANCE: linux-io unix-io
 
 M: linux-io init-io ( -- )
-    <epoll-mx> mx set-global
+    <select-mx> mx set-global
     start-wait-loop ;
 
 M: linux-io wait-for-process ( pid -- status )
     wait-for-pid ;
 
-T{ linux-io } io-backend set-global ! set-io-backend
+T{ linux-io } set-io-backend