From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:17:10 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20110916151710.GA6911@polynum.com> References: <20110916010220.5e3adb54@kolari.ethans.dre.am> <20110916155618.7c15a9ac@kolari.ethans.dre.am> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110916155618.7c15a9ac@kolari.ethans.dre.am> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Re: [9fans] my kingdom for a web browser :-P Topicbox-Message-UUID: 238a55ea-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:56:18PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:11:00 +0300 > Aram H?v?rneanu wrote: > > > And I don't believe in full linux environments > > in lguest, in general, a kernel plus a single static binary, like a > > browser would be enough. > > I don't think a browser can even be a static binary any more. I'm not > going to try to recall exactly which bits won't statically linked; I > suspect I'd get very depressed if I remembered. > Last time I tried, I had to give up due to the dependencies of dependencies of dependencies... of the X11 and above dynamically shared libraries. If simplicity is the shortest path to the truth, I'm afraid I'm not convinced some people are on the right track to the truth... -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C