Re: [9fans] First-timer help

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 7/19/05, Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
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> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Ben Huntsman wrote:
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> > Anything like that in the works?  I'm not generally a Linux fan, and
> > would be much more inclined to set up Xen if I could control it through
> > Plan 9...
> 
> need volunteers.
> 

I guess it's difficult to speculate, but do you foresee any problems
with paravirtualization performance running with Plan 9 as Dom0?  I
know with "regular virtualization" I've seen awfully bad performance
of Inferno, at least in the handling of mouse interrupts and graphics.

I'm wondering how this will play into the DomUs in Xen.

> > Speaking of which, though, I know this is nearly flame bait for
> > sure,(but that's not my intent, and this list keeps things pretty
> > professional) but since I respect your opinion and am sure you've a
> > justifiable reason, what Linux do you use?  Thanks!
> 
> I have no good reasons, but currently use suse 9.something. I mainly use
> that because Erik hendriks used it, and I needed his kernel patches etc.
> to work, so decided to stay bug-compatible (not that suse is more or less
> buggy than anything else -- it's pretty good).
> 
> Ollie Lo, whom I respect very highly, is pretty happy with FC3 and now
> FC4, in spite of some problems with udev.
> 
> I keep thinking about gentoo, since I really still like freebsd better and
> gentoo reminds me of the freebsd ports collection. There are days I miss
> from my old job which involved a lot of FreeBSD work ...

Indeed, I too am a fan of everything FreeBSD over Linux these days,
right down to the license.  It's just a shame that FreeBSD 6.0
snapshots can't seem to negotiate with my KVM or I'd be running it on
something other than my PowerBook [which has a pretty solid port right
now... needs some hardware support but is coming along nicely]

Also, due to momentum in the market, I have to devote most of my life
to working on Linux related software and stuff.  My only real break
from it is Mac OS X which I also support at work for our MPI
implementations.

Haven't honestly tried Gentoo in a long while, I've heard they have
binary packages and such that don't suck as badly as they did when I
tested a pre-release long ago.  It's probably worth another look, but
I honestly think they try to be too modular. [too many choices for
things like system loggers... pick one and do it right :)]

Dave

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> ron
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