From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050120012020.GE59585@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501181223010.28635@linux.site>
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:25:15PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> > it's so large and has had so many hands in it that it is basically
> > unmaintainable. i worked with someone a few years ago who would
> > literally update his linux distribution *daily*. it would "work" some
> > days.
>
> yeah, I'm seeing this here. Linux is into "fail because it fails" mode.
> Of course, a lot of this is the fact that PC hardware sucks so bad, but
> Linux is still getting pretty complex pretty fast. I think it passed
> Solaris a while ago.
FreeBSD has its share of problems -- mostly it lags in hardware
suport -- but it does boot everytime. Well, except when my video
card is totaly hosed; dunno what's up with that. Either lots of
random noise or big flashing blocks on the screen, but never the
BIOS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-20 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 17:07 Noah Evans
2005-01-18 19:11 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-01-18 19:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-19 1:38 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-19 1:37 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-19 1:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-19 4:13 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-20 1:22 ` William Josephson
2005-01-19 4:12 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-20 1:20 ` William Josephson [this message]
2005-01-20 1:16 ` William Josephson
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