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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:45:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200104100045.BAA06131@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> of "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:08:06 CDT." <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010409170204.14587Y-100000@einstein.ssz.com>

Being on UK time, I'm going to be somewhat disappointed if tomorrow morning,
I find 9fans full of "well, I've installed on a weirder system than you"
posturing.

Jim wrote:
> An OS is meant to be used. Any environment is a 'production' environment
> from a OS system admin perspective. Making a OS a chinese puzzle to solve
> isn't doing anyone a service. It's just hard-headed self-congragulatory
> mental mastrubation.

I don't understand the problem, here. Jim, you *know* what Plan 9's
history is. Yes, it was supposed to be used, but to find out how well
the ideas behind it work. More specifically, use != install, so if the
effort goes into the day-to-day use at the expense of a bumpy install,
well, that's the trade-off for a research group.

steve




  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-10  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2001-04-09 23:08         ` [9fans] " Jim Choate
2001-04-09 22:50           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-04-10  0:45       ` Steve Kilbane [this message]
2001-04-10  0:28         ` [9fans] " 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
  -- 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 21:43 Russ Cox
2001-04-09 22:16 ` Jim Choate
2001-04-10  8:59   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-10  9:00   ` Boyd Roberts
     [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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