From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:44:20 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] alright, this should be interesting In-Reply-To: <35b09c83f408fc9fd7a2b0d019a96010@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: References: <35b09c83f408fc9fd7a2b0d019a96010@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0939984-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > All the answers are not new to me though. Probably, I've been > engaged in Plan 9 too much... One thing I disagree with (in our context) is that kernels don't matter. For what we do, they matter a LOT. And in the commercial world, kernels matter tremendously, such as in embedded applications. There are companies determined to build from-scratch kernels so they can have a "proprietary advantage"; there are others just as determined to use Linux Inside because they don't have the resources to do their own. It's economics. In the general case, for desktops and laptops and such, however, it may well be true that kernels don't matter. ron