From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Shaposhnick To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] porting from vs. porting to Plan 9 Message-ID: <20031017143638.B10499@submarine> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:36:38 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71c9bf9e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:17:32PM -0600, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Brantley Coile wrote: > > > In the early 1980's, you folks in the labs trashed the VAX > > kernel and replaced it with 4.1a (or c or something). You > > poked around in the kernel, trowing away some stuff, adding > > new stuff like streams and netb and stuff. On top you > > ran very clean stuff. This was done because you saw > > that for that hardware the BSD kernel was more useful. > > I'd still rather work with a real plan 9 kernel. There's so much baggage > in Linux I don't want to deal with. I would rather put my efforts into > making plan 9 a bigger deal. I always wanted to see how many applications would break if I were to, lets say, disable shared memory from SysV API. It could be a nice experiment to do on a live contemporary distro -- just pick a set of obscure interfaces and see how many applications are really using any of it. Thanks, Roman.