From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60606080829w5d85b5c7t5bcb3a9571d0d9dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:29:58 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality In-Reply-To: <45219fb00606080232j6e503c82w@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <45219fb00606080232j6e503c82w@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 615f6c6c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/8/06, Llu=EDs Batlle wrote: > Maybe something capable of running an isolated linux box in plan9's > environment would do the trick, as some people do right now in Linux > in order to run plan9. Let's say... a 'xen-like-thing' running on > plan9, for running other kernels over the same hardware. > > Of course, I don't plan coding that. Hmmm, port Plan 9 to L4, run side by side with L4 Linux? Why not just run Plan 9 as the guest for that matter. I do that with parallels. It's no worse than using VNC to alleviate the pain of not having a web browser is it? Except I don't need VNC to do the work. I think I'd be happy with this. I don't see any compelling reasons these days to load Plan 9 anywhere but in a virtualized environment really (for my use). Ron has a very specific need and I wish him luck. > > 2006/6/8, cej@gli.cas.cz : > > > No, we need fresh ideas. An infinite number of monkeys turning Plan > > > 9 into Linux is not progress. > > > > I agree 100%. Although I would LOVE to have some loonix prgs w/o > > rebooting to L. Or c++, java, perl, etc... > > Attract more people to the clean design (and they will, hopefully, > > rewrite everything that is(isn't;-) worth it... > > IMHO. > > > > ++pac. > > > > >