Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:10:24 +0200
simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com> wrote:

> If it wasn't for this cancerous web applications ordeal, I would be happy
> with OpenBSD & rio,
> and maybe with pure Plan 9 in the future ..

You'd be missing the best of Plan 9. Actually, I really feel we already have Plan 9 merged into Linux and (iirc) OpenBSD exactly as far as it needs to be, in the form of the frequently but underservedly ignored 9vx. I've always thought p9p's plumber could help 9vx communicate with the host system, but never actually tried it.

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> Simon
>
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:17:14 +0200
> > simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Because it's more likely that users will settle with linux+some plan 9
> > > features
> > > instead of with pure plan 9
> >
> > Most of us have to anyway.
> >
> > For now...
> >
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:12 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't see why anyone combining ideas from Plan 9 into Linux hurts
> > > > Plan 9 as long as Plan 9 continues to exist.
> > > >
> > > > On Saturday, July 16, 2011, simon softnet <ph.softnet@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > Please, don't let plan 9 and linux be interrelated in the future in
> > any
> > > > way ...Future plan 9 users have the opportunity to experience novel
> > > > user-space paradigms.Why do they have to be sucked into the linux
> > world?
> > > > >
> > > > > Simon
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Robert Seaton <seatonr@dupage.edu>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> one might find http://www.glendix.org/ project interesting
> > > > >
> > > > > The project actually already uses a glendix patched kernel and much
> > of
> > > > > my upcoming work will be focused on porting more of Plan 9's syscalls
> > > > > to the Linux kernel so that more native Plan 9 apps can be run on
> > > > > Linux. :)
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