From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:35:31 +0200 From: Harri Haataja To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix? Message-ID: <20071113153531.GD3627@paju.oulu.fi> References: <47396E4D.6020005@kix.in> <20071113133024.E01902F82@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071113133024.E01902F82@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: f722fd12-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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