From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110916151710.GA6911@polynum.com> References: <20110916010220.5e3adb54@kolari.ethans.dre.am> <20110916155618.7c15a9ac@kolari.ethans.dre.am> <20110916151710.GA6911@polynum.com> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:36:17 +1000 Message-ID: From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] my kingdom for a web browser :-P Topicbox-Message-UUID: 242b92b6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I will personally give a cheap-ass machine to the winner of the challenge. brucee@pus-box:~$ uname -a Linux pus-box 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Jun 11 14:54:10 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Lin= ux It's the black thing in the corner. It is strange that all this muck got stirred up again by the neat work perpetrated by Ron et al and nemo's cool book. Note that you are not covered by my medical insurance if you end up like rob's happy hacker. brucee On 17 September 2011 01:17, wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:56:18PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:11:00 +0300 >> Aram H?v?rneanu wrote: >> >> > And I don't believe in full linux environments >> > in lguest, in general, a kernel plus a single static binary, like a >> > browser would be enough. >> >> I don't think a browser can even be a static binary any more. I'm not >> going to try to recall exactly which bits won't statically linked; I >> suspect I'd get very depressed if I remembered. >> > > Last time I tried, I had to give up due to the dependencies of > dependencies of dependencies... of the X11 and above dynamically > shared libraries. > > If simplicity is the shortest path to the truth, I'm afraid I'm not > convinced some people are on the right track to the truth... > -- > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Thierry Laronde > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0http://www.kergis.com/ > Key fingerprint =3D 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 =C2=A0250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F4= 0C > > > --=20 Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)