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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:15:08 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:41:29 -0400
> L N <leonardnemoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and can
>> open a web-browser.
>
> That "goal" is a target moving at approximately the speed of light. Specifically, the "open a web browser" part of it is.
>
> A virtualizer running on Plan 9 would waste far less time than implementing enough Linux syscalls to run a Linux distro new enough to run any browser newer than Opera 9.

That's a very interesting point. Implementing lguest on Plan 9 would
require something like 13 "system calls". Far easier than doing the
near-400 system calls of linux correctly.

ron