From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <96123511-7440-4177-88F9-90FAD1789C04@9srv.net> References: <96123511-7440-4177-88F9-90FAD1789C04@9srv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 From: Ryan Gonzalez Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:03:04 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>, Anthony Sorace Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 63fd394c-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On July 27, 2015 9:19:47 AM CDT, Anthony Sorace wrote: >> erik quanstrom wrote: >>=20 >> when i need to run Linux programs, i run linux. > >Yeah, but then you=E2=80=99ve got linux. Now you=E2=80=99ve got two >problems (hah! if only=E2=80=A6). > >> what is the benefit of running firefox on a p9 like system, >> rather than on linux? > >The theory, anyway, is that you could then not have a linux >(or whatever) system. If the emulation bit could be self- >contained enough, a plan9 system with linuxemu would >have a significantly lower maintenance burden than a plan9 >system plus a linux system. In theory. > >I=E2=80=99ve never understood why the emulation effort picked >linux, though. It seems like the worst possible thing to be >emulating, and I don=E2=80=99t imagine the software support for the >sort of things we=E2=80=99re talking about (for many, it=E2=80=99s prett= y >much just a browser) is all that different between Linux and, >say, FreeBSD. Are there a bunch of linux-only apps people >would like to have? I always thought is was that emulating an open-source application platfor= m is easier than emulating a black box like Wine does, as you can see how= things are done and the internal APIs and stuff. --=20 Sent from my Nexus 5 with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.