From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:20:20 -0500 From: William Josephson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports. Message-ID: <20050120012020.GE59585@mero.morphisms.net> References: <56a297000501180907140d571d@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d1905011811112dc6de25@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 336e16e4-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.