From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200104100045.BAA06131@localhost.localdomain> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] micro vs monolithic kernels In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Choate of "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 17:08:06 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Steve Kilbane Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:45:48 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7ca3dbfa-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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