Re: [9fans] Glendix?

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

> what an unholy marrage!

I'm not sure marriage is ever holy...

> 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?
>
> why are linux schedulers interesting?
>
> 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).

Well, the goal is to try to get the best of both worlds: plan9 user
space environment and administration while taking advantage of linux
dirvers and allowing lunix programs to run inside a sandbox
(namespace).

Admittedly how one deals with udev and other such linux userspace
monsters might be  tricky, but I think that is the whole point, to
replace such things with saner Plan 9-based solutions.

Think of it as an exercises on how a linux distribution would look
like if they had learned something from Plan 9.

And while there are similarities with THNX, I think it is also quite
different, as far as understand it, the only way to run linux apps on
thnx is via VNC, which seems far from ideal (and you are still having
a lunix environment outside the plan9 environment).

In any case, I'm not sure I see the point of all this arguments before
not a single line of code has been written (and much less released),
the more people we have bringing plan9 technologies to the world the
better.

uriel