Re: [9fans] Glendix?

[Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in>]

Hi,

> what happens when you're tracking a bug?  do you give up when
> it enters linux?  how do you configure hardware if you're not
> going to use the linux machinery?

>From a very theoretical perspective, using a different userspace with
the Linux kernel shouldn't be all that difficult. I'm not sure how much
tied a traditional Linux userspace is to the kernel, so I don't the
answers to your questions.

> why are linux schedulers interesting?

Well, to be honest, I haven't looked at the Plan 9 schedulers; so
amongst the ones that we have seen so far, Linux has the most
interesting set of schedulers (purely from a classroom perspective).

> i think that rather than the best of both worlds, you'd end up
> with the worst of both.  all the joys of linux administration and
> yet no (insert favorite browser here).

So, the best of both worlds would mean the Plan 9 kernel and the GNU
userspace? Or perhaps Plan 9 wants to be single all his (her?) life ;)

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Anant