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From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?
Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2008 08:58:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60807080858o499bc3c4l514056f090751e4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4f625010045271878765374f9fc8d8c@hera.eonet.ne.jp>

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I believe the reasoning is as such:

Linux has more drivers than Plan 9, therefore Plan 9 should run on linux.

Use Linux as your driver repository... this is an approach used by some
microkernel systems like L4.

Dave

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:28 AM, <kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp> wrote:

> I downloaded Russ's 9vx and vx32 source tree Ford's web page,
> and build those on my Debian stable machine.
> I also read the paper of vx32 last week.
> Now, everything goes fine, and got a fun to play with
> games/mahjongg on that virtual machine.
> Thank you very much Russ!
>
> However, I have somewhat confused mind.... Why it's not Linux vx for
> Plan9?   I have no intention to make it bad, however, if we believe
> Plan 9 is better than Linux, then Linux vx for Plan9 should be more
> neccessary, shouldn't ?
>
> Kenji
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-08 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-08 15:28 kokamoto
2008-07-08 15:58 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2008-07-08 16:04   ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 16:33     ` ron minnich
2008-07-08 16:47       ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-09  4:33         ` LiteStar numnums
2008-07-08 17:46     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-08 17:49       ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 18:38         ` a
2008-07-08 19:01           ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 19:46             ` a
2008-07-08 20:03         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-08 20:15           ` William Josephson
2008-07-08 20:38             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-08 21:25             ` ron minnich
2008-07-08 22:16               ` Steve Simon
2008-07-08 22:32                 ` David du Colombier
2008-07-09  0:01                   ` don bailey
2008-07-09  0:13                     ` ron minnich
2008-07-09  3:17                       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-07-09  3:43                         ` ron minnich
2008-07-09  3:45                           ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-09  4:44                           ` David Leimbach
2008-07-08 18:50     ` David Leimbach
2008-07-08 17:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-10 12:58   ` matt
2008-07-10 13:47     ` Russ Cox
2008-07-10 14:03       ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]         ` <B94154D0-97B5-4FFF-A140-E47D95FC1307@flyingwalrus.net>
2008-07-12 15:59           ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-10 15:18       ` ron minnich
2008-07-10 16:33         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-10 16:36           ` ron minnich
2008-07-10 19:25             ` cinap_lenrek
2008-07-10 19:50               ` ron minnich
2008-07-11  9:10                 ` Kernel Panic
2008-07-11 16:12                   ` ron minnich
2008-07-10 14:01     ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-08 17:27 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-08 17:39   ` a

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