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Subject: Re: [9fans] the JD project: little tiny liinux that is a driver for
From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:24:31 +0000
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> What
> would be very interesting is to not have a root at all, but just boot
> as a terminal from somewhere, but we are not ready yet.

9xen was already bootable as a diskless terminal before the block
device driver was written.  Or do you mean not have a linux root?
In the world of OS-on-top-of-OS you need to disambiguate terms like
"root", "boot", "console" etc because there are too many of them.