From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] fun quote
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:02:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60909170902o1c429613ke60ed563fde1cce7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d344f4a027087d71dcf2b4c5d63aaacc@quanstro.net>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:52 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it?
>
> that's the point. age is a red herring.
>
> > What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this? For instance, no body
> > ever complains about FreeBSD being a complex cluster, but it has
> > pretty wide adoption (even as a 'desktop'). What about OS X? Has
> > Apple's arrogance and secrecy saved it from.... open source
> > development? It seems like they release code only after they are damn
> > sure they've gotten all they can out of it.
>
> so you're saying that osx is not complicated?
>
I think Mach makes me go cross-eyed. It's not at all what it was meant to
be. Wedging that stuff in with IOKit and BSD stuff makes me feel lost, and
yes I've hacked on XNU, the hybrid beast that it is, and run Mac OS X on my
own kernels.
>
> - erik
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 12:14 erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 12:34 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-17 12:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 15:30 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-17 16:00 ` james toy
2009-09-17 16:05 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-17 16:02 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2009-09-17 16:27 ` matt
2009-09-17 16:45 ` erik quanstrom
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