From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:50:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920907081250h46a4f2caw427b2c720dc70680@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ab217670907080956o49460690hf8e33bf42bb59f82@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<devon.odell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think so. We already have IPv6 support and it's not that bad.
> Having more drivers and supported commodity architectures would be a
> good thing. I'd love to do this, but I don't think anybody's going to
> match my salary to port drivers, do ACPI, add amd64 support for
> workstations, etc.
ACPI will never, ever, ever happen, so people better get over it (and
if anyone is naive enough to waste their time trying, it will end up
as a useless atrocious mess that wont boot even in a 100th of the
systems out there, much less suspend or do anything useful).
As for amd64, it is already done, we are just not worthy to have access to it.
uriel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 7:48 Aharon Robbins
2009-07-08 8:48 ` tlaronde
2009-07-08 9:02 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-08 9:23 ` tlaronde
2009-07-08 9:41 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-08 10:33 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 12:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 9:28 ` Anselm R Garbe
2009-07-08 10:22 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 10:40 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-08 11:05 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 11:34 ` Anselm R Garbe
2009-07-08 12:07 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 15:07 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-08 16:15 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-07-08 16:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 16:56 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 19:41 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:47 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 19:56 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 20:44 ` Noah Evans
2009-07-08 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-08 21:23 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:50 ` Uriel [this message]
2009-07-08 19:56 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:04 ` Uriel
2009-07-08 20:10 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:19 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 20:25 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-07-08 20:30 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:44 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-07-08 20:32 ` John Floren
2009-07-08 22:21 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-08 22:41 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-07-09 4:10 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 5:43 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 17:48 ` Micah Stetson
2009-07-09 17:50 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-09 17:50 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 19:47 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 20:29 ` tlaronde
2009-07-09 20:58 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 21:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09 21:44 ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-10 4:21 ` Bakul Shah
2009-07-09 21:59 ` Jason Catena
2009-07-09 22:18 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-10 6:32 ` tlaronde
2009-07-09 12:45 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-09 15:24 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-08 20:11 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 20:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-08 20:59 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 21:04 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-08 17:34 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-08 17:52 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 19:40 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 20:09 ` ron minnich
2009-07-08 16:12 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2009-07-08 9:04 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-10 6:32 Akshat Kumar
2009-07-10 12:02 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-07-10 12:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-10 12:52 ` Robert Raschke
2009-07-10 17:11 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-10 19:54 ` Richard Miller
2009-07-10 19:14 ` Bakul Shah
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