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Subject: Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames
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On Sunday, May 01, 2011 07:38:43 PM erik quanstrom wrote:
> > I'll risk venturing an opinion on that approach:
> >
> > Running a plan 9 hosted inferno is essentially another take on the vnc or
> > linuxemu workarounds. It won't provide the same freedoms and benefits
> > of a native library/engine/framework.
>
> what freedoms are those?
>

The freedom _from_ an extra, extraneous, alien environment. [1]

The freedom _for_ building a variety of native front-ends.

The freedom _for_ integrating with existing native libraries.


Perhaps "freedoms" and "benefits" are synonymous in this context, and
thus redundant.


[1] yes - I think it's strictly accurate to consider inferno as being alien
and extraneous to plan 9.