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From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:35:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071113153531.GD3627@paju.oulu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113133024.E01902F82@okapi.maths.tcd.ie>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:30:24PM +0000, John Stalker wrote:
> > I picked this idea from the GSoC07 Wiki page: porting the Plan 9
> > userspace to the Linux kernel.
> For your own sanity I would suggest that you consider a NetBSD base
> rather than a Linux base.  You get most of the portability and you
> get a much better thought out binary emulation layer. 

> You should be able to run both
> native and plan9 binaries, unmodified, side by side if you do things
> right.

Isn't there also an "emulator" for Linux binaries on the
same arch (nearly always x86 if we think in binaries).

Another thing is, if you could get NetBSD to look like plan9,
maybe you would get this Glendix on all (or even some) of the
hw architectures the "world's most portable operating system"
supports!

-- 
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
	-- Robert Louis Stevenson


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13  9:28 Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 10:05 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-13 10:14   ` Uriel
2007-11-13 10:33     ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-11-13 14:25       ` David Leimbach
2007-11-14  0:51         ` Alexander Sychev
2007-11-13 21:37   ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 10:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 10:39 ` roger peppe
2007-11-13 10:47   ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 12:18     ` Uriel
2007-11-13 13:00     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 13:31       ` Uriel
2007-11-13 13:47         ` roger peppe
2007-11-13 14:10           ` sqweek
2007-11-13 13:54         ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 15:20           ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 18:23             ` Bakul Shah
2007-11-13 14:26         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 16:49           ` Uriel
2007-11-13 17:19             ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 17:24               ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 22:01               ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 15:16         ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 14:29       ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-13 17:21         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-13 21:41         ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-11-13 13:30 ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 15:35   ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2007-11-13 16:22     ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 16:43       ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-13 16:39   ` Uriel
2007-11-13 16:46     ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 18:02       ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 18:12         ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-13 22:04         ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 22:16           ` David Leimbach
2007-11-13 23:19           ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-14  2:23             ` R
2007-11-14 11:44               ` Iruata Souza
2007-11-14 12:17                 ` R
2007-11-14 12:40                   ` Christian Kellermann
2007-11-14 13:01                     ` R
2007-11-14 13:08                       ` Christian Kellermann
2007-11-13 17:48     ` John Stalker
2007-11-13 16:26 ` Russ Cox
2007-11-13 16:42   ` Charles Forsyth
2007-11-13 17:44     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-14  5:44       ` ron minnich
2007-11-16  8:42 ` [9fans] Nine4Linux [WAS: Glendix?] Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-16 10:20   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]   ` <1b69251dfdcb6b8022ff78767f07ce86@quanstro.net>
2007-11-22 18:01     ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-22 22:00       ` Paweł Lasek

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