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Date: Tue,  8 Jul 2008 08:58:53 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?
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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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I believe the reasoning is as such:<br><br>Linux has more drivers than Plan 9, therefore Plan 9 should run on linux.<br><br>Use Linux as your driver repository... this is an approach used by some microkernel systems like L4.<br>
<br>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:28 AM,  &lt;<a href="mailto:kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp">kokamoto@hera.eonet.ne.jp</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I downloaded Russ&#39;s 9vx and vx32 source tree Ford&#39;s web page,<br>
and build those on my Debian stable machine.<br>
I also read the paper of vx32 last week.<br>
Now, everything goes fine, and got a fun to play with<br>
games/mahjongg on that virtual machine.<br>
Thank you very much Russ!<br>
<br>
However, I have somewhat confused mind.... Why it&#39;s not Linux vx for<br>
Plan9? &nbsp; I have no intention to make it bad, however, if we believe<br>
Plan 9 is better than Linux, then Linux vx for Plan9 should be more<br>
neccessary, shouldn&#39;t ?<br>
<br>
Kenji<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>

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