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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels
Date: Mon,  9 Apr 2001 17:43:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010409214335.DA03319A6F@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

sorry, i didn't qualify that properly.
you wouldn't expect, having just been exposed to
windows for the first time, to set up an nt file
server properly in a few hours.  ditto for linux.

once you've done it a few times, and once you know
your way around the system, sure, all of them become
much quicker to install.  for the last six years, i've
run a linux internet gateway at my old high school.
the first time i set it up it took me hundreds (!) of
hours, despite familiarity with linux.  (the computing
environment there was quite peculiar and inserting linux
required much tailoring.)  the last time i set it up
it took three hours.

i agree that it'd be great to have the plan 9 cpu and
file servers be easier to install.  doing a cpu
install program wouldn't be too hard.  doing a file
server install program will require waiting for the
new file server, since the current one doesn't allow
arbitrary processes to run on it: what you see is
all you get.

russ


             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-09 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-09 21:43 Russ Cox [this message]
2001-04-09 22:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:59   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-17  8:35 nemo
2001-04-10 11:56 forsyth
2001-04-10 11:50 forsyth
2001-04-10 11:35 Matt
2001-04-10 10:52 forsyth
     [not found] <200104092210.RAA06371@einstein.ssz.com>
2001-04-09 22:12 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-04-09 22:00 jmk
2001-04-09 22:30 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 21:47 presotto
2001-04-09 21:15 Russ Cox
2001-04-09 21:52 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 21:36   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-09 22:08     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:34       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-10  0:45       ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-10  0:28         ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:18           ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-10  8:57       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-09 21:40   ` William Josephson
2001-04-09 22:10     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:16       ` William Josephson
2001-04-09 22:42   ` Dan Cross
2001-04-09 23:10     ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  0:30       ` Dan Cross
2001-04-09 22:10 ` Mike Haertel
     [not found] <john@cs.york.ac.uk>
2001-04-09 14:33 ` John A. Murdie
2001-04-09 23:31   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-04-09 10:19 forsyth
2001-04-09  9:09 forsyth
2001-04-09  9:32 ` Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997
2001-04-09 16:14   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-08 19:36 presotto
2001-04-08 17:55 Andrey A Mirtchovski

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