From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4739B4B6.9040104@kix.in> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:59:10 +0530 From: Anant Narayanan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f711812c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 ;) -- Anant