* [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
@ 2005-01-18 17:07 Noah Evans
2005-01-18 19:11 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-01-20 1:16 ` William Josephson
0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Noah Evans @ 2005-01-18 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
What is up with linux/gnu lately? glibc version 2.3.4.20040808-r1
caused the new version of plan 9 ports to segfault on every threaded
application. The same thing supposed happens with opera. I upgraded to
2.3.4.20041102 and everything worked fine.
Not to mention burning something like 12 coasters on linux 2.6.8.1
before finding out about the burning bug (`-')
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* Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
2005-01-18 17:07 [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports Noah Evans
@ 2005-01-18 19:11 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-01-18 19:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-20 1:16 ` William Josephson
1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Ellis @ 2005-01-18 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Noah Evans, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
it's so large and has had so many hands in it that
it is basically unmaintainable. i worked with someone
a few years ago who would literally update his linux
distribution *daily*. it would "work" some days.
brucee
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 02:07:48 +0900, Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is up with linux/gnu lately? glibc version 2.3.4.20040808-r1
> caused the new version of plan 9 ports to segfault on every threaded
> application. The same thing supposed happens with opera. I upgraded to
> 2.3.4.20041102 and everything worked fine.
>
> Not to mention burning something like 12 coasters on linux 2.6.8.1
> before finding out about the burning bug (`-')
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* Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
2005-01-18 19:11 ` Bruce Ellis
@ 2005-01-18 19:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-19 1:38 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-20 1:20 ` William Josephson
0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Ronald G. Minnich @ 2005-01-18 19:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bruce Ellis, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> it's so large and has had so many hands in it that it is basically
> unmaintainable. i worked with someone a few years ago who would
> literally update his linux distribution *daily*. it would "work" some
> days.
yeah, I'm seeing this here. Linux is into "fail because it fails" mode.
Funny: I have an old X24 and a new T41. Last set of upgrades to SuSE, it
turns out the old X24 can only run new kernels, since 2.4.xyz busted
somehere; 2.6.10 is fine on the X24. The new T41, however, can only run
old kernels. So for the newest kernels I use my older laptop.
Of course, a lot of this is the fact that PC hardware sucks so bad, but
Linux is still getting pretty complex pretty fast. I think it passed
Solaris a while ago.
ron
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* Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
2005-01-18 19:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
@ 2005-01-19 1:38 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-01-19 1:37 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-01-19 4:12 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-20 1:20 ` William Josephson
1 sibling, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Kenji Okamoto @ 2005-01-19 1:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> yeah, I'm seeing this here. Linux is into "fail because it fails" mode.
>
> Of course, a lot of this is the fact that PC hardware sucks so bad, but
> Linux is still getting pretty complex pretty fast. I think it passed
> Solaris a while ago.
I'm running 2.4.28 all our machines, older models, here.
I'm trusting "you don't change it if it works well." things.☺
By the way what is the major motivation when you all updated from
2.4.xyz to 2.6.xyz? Sorry, off topic!
Kenji
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* Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
2005-01-18 19:25 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-19 1:38 ` Kenji Okamoto
@ 2005-01-20 1:20 ` William Josephson
1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: William Josephson @ 2005-01-20 1:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:25:15PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> > it's so large and has had so many hands in it that it is basically
> > unmaintainable. i worked with someone a few years ago who would
> > literally update his linux distribution *daily*. it would "work" some
> > days.
>
> yeah, I'm seeing this here. Linux is into "fail because it fails" mode.
> Of course, a lot of this is the fact that PC hardware sucks so bad, but
> Linux is still getting pretty complex pretty fast. I think it passed
> Solaris a while ago.
FreeBSD has its share of problems -- mostly it lags in hardware
suport -- but it does boot everytime. Well, except when my video
card is totaly hosed; dunno what's up with that. Either lots of
random noise or big flashing blocks on the screen, but never the
BIOS.
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* Re: [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports.
2005-01-18 17:07 [9fans] linux and plan 9 ports Noah Evans
2005-01-18 19:11 ` Bruce Ellis
@ 2005-01-20 1:16 ` William Josephson
1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: William Josephson @ 2005-01-20 1:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 02:07:48AM +0900, Noah Evans wrote:
> What is up with linux/gnu lately? glibc version 2.3.4.20040808-r1
``Lately''? If anyone finds Russ his Tux punching bag, I want
one, too.
> caused the new version of plan 9 ports to segfault on every threaded
> application. The same thing supposed happens with opera. I upgraded to
> 2.3.4.20041102 and everything worked fine.
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